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
next prev parent 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=86d2jz79bq.fsf@moguhome00.in.awa.tohoku.ac.jp \
--to=heroxbd@gentoo.org \
--cc=gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox