From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MmrH2-0005ME-5f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:45:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6437E07A2; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.246]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A75E07A2 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so7348219and.1 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:45:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=btOBFOWFa5lYW60yvonA0O7T8+YHjiWGmOuBsNXD41I=; b=haEVPwgn1saCfkkFwM24WeBwpaxt09UGRPmRxojUuP7fNPMOQdMhjRwkXHR3EKOxFF NCIykWT8oIdaG7o/myK4UAUKr8jF6LKZkvvn3d02sbGAzm6L55bVj2CzWBNCqrdxUuB3 hh8kJHLkylN6cIO6q2j7FdScaKQY7vMCXGZHQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RQhoGsCeCSaGotr0tDMhKLNuqCZ9dYpwAgDnC9LuKkVoqGzm4A/b34WVle1uwQU4l6 v95YPvQrIkJ9l1MhQeirbuz4s0WmIq6hd0WZEeNCGz6ufHuS+yA6/99ki2i+Hry1hRxn rofU+5YlET8KO6ksXQS9dJFeBNgmqtKVopFKA= Received: by 10.101.98.9 with SMTP id a9mr5400853anm.160.1252856754389; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-144-216-40.jan.bellsouth.net [70.144.216.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c1sm7752163ana.7.2009.09.13.08.45.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:45:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AAD13AF.7080905@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:45:51 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090905 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future References: <4AAAD714.1010107@hartwork.org> <4b0462b4d4cc0f26a7b45e6787d51890@localhost> <4AAD0377.8070001@gmail.com> <1252854352.31198.0.camel@centar> In-Reply-To: <1252854352.31198.0.camel@centar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 040b4621-fc15-4014-ba0a-f59788220598 X-Archives-Hash: 893f1a341828ef6a7af4f6b357c9a101 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 09:36 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>>> Seriously, I doubt that the average Gentoo user comes from >>>> >> Distrowatch. >> >>>> Gentoo is born from a necessity which is very different from the >>>> >> usual >> >>>> binary distro. Gentoo has never been about fame or marketing. >>>> > > >> - - I came here because of distrowatch. I started with Mandrake 9.1 >> but didn't like the upgrade process. I went to distrowatch to see >> what >> else I could find to use. I found about about Gentoo and here I am, >> years later using Gentoo. >> > > What do our market research people tell us? ;-) > > -a > > Good question. How would a person know if distrowatch leads people to Gentoo or not? It's not like there is really any way to find out. Dale :-) :-)