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From: heroxbd@gentoo.org
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage QOS
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 07:36:57 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86d2jz79bq.fsf@moguhome00.in.awa.tohoku.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan$ccf$199f9999$12e9cf1f$fb76caba@cox.net> (Duncan's message of "Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:38:14 +0000 (UTC)")

Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> writes:

> Meanwhile, you might try googling Zynot.  That was one early, perhaps the 
> first, Gentoo fork.  Such talk of cutthroat competition in a zero-sum 
> game, of deliberately cutting off user options so they'd be forced to 
> stick with you, of it can be us or them, not both, etc, was exactly the 
> sort of thing they tried.  That was 2002/2003 or so.  While the events 
> and acrimony surrounding that did ultimately drive Gentoo's founder 
> (Daniel Robbins) elsewhere, Gentoo survived (thanks in part to drobbins' 
> efforts to secure a good future for it even at heavy personal cost to 
> himself and his family as he was already in the process of leaving).  
> Gentoo's still here, but where is zynot today?
>
> I remember back in early 2004 as I was researching my switch to gentoo, 
> reading up on zynot, which was at that time still a going concern, and 
> repeatedly asking myself as I read the essays from zynot's founder 
> heavily criticizing gentoo and its founder, why can't he see what's 
> happening, that every single thing he's negatively pointing at in gentoo 
> and drobbins he and zynot are doing themselves in far greater measure, 
> and why he was so stuck on closed source competitive techniques in an 
> open source world.  His very essays, supposedly criticizing gentoo, 
> instead ended up convincing me more than ever that gentoo was /exactly/ 
> the right choice for me. =:^)

Wow... What a history! I am educated. Thanks for sharing.

I've always been interested in my distro's history. The information
scatters here and there. It'll be nice if some senior/retired developers
write up a Gentoo history on wiki.g.o :)

Benda


  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-10 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-09  7:24 [gentoo-dev] Portage QOS LTHR
2014-01-09  8:12 ` Alec Warner
2014-01-09 12:44   ` Igor
2014-01-09 14:12     ` Christopher Schwan
2014-01-09 15:26       ` Igor
2014-01-09 15:55         ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-01-09 16:37           ` Igor
2014-01-10  0:27             ` heroxbd
2014-01-10 12:41               ` Igor
2014-01-10 13:51                 ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-10  0:16         ` heroxbd
2014-01-10  0:31           ` Patrick Lauer
2014-01-10  1:19             ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-10  1:52               ` Patrick McLean
2014-01-10  2:40                 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-10  6:17                 ` Brian Dolbec
2014-01-10 18:14                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-01-10  7:54             ` heroxbd
2014-01-10 18:11             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-01-11  3:57               ` Patrick Lauer
2014-01-10  1:02           ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-10  9:10             ` heroxbd
2014-01-10 14:54               ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-10 12:23           ` Igor
2014-01-10 12:30             ` René Neumann
2014-01-10 12:30           ` Igor
2014-01-10 12:39             ` Patrick Lauer
2014-01-10 13:05               ` Igor
2014-01-10 13:18                 ` René Neumann
2014-01-10 18:19                   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-01-10 19:06                     ` René Neumann
2014-01-10 14:05                 ` heroxbd
2014-01-12 10:47                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2014-01-10 13:10               ` [gentoo-dev] " Igor
2014-01-10 14:02                 ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-10 15:16                   ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-10 18:12           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-01-09 15:49     ` Ben Kohler
2014-01-09 16:11       ` Igor
2014-01-09 17:59     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2014-01-09 20:42       ` Igor
2014-01-09 21:08         ` Chris Reffett
2014-01-10 12:10           ` Igor
2014-01-10 12:26             ` René Neumann
2014-01-10 12:52               ` Igor
2014-01-10 12:57                 ` René Neumann
2014-01-10 15:39                 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-10 16:36             ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-10 18:17             ` Greg KH
2014-01-10 19:38           ` Duncan
2014-01-10 22:36             ` heroxbd [this message]
2014-01-11  1:28               ` Duncan
2014-01-09 19:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " yac
2014-01-11 15:00 ` Naohiro Aota
2014-01-12 10:28   ` Igor
2014-01-12 19:31   ` Igor
2014-01-12 19:31   ` Igor

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