From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IfrCl-0008Rh-BP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:07:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9B5vWMw023379; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:57:32 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9B5vVMl023374 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:57:32 GMT Received: from gentoo.org (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72126546C; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:57:30 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:57:28 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-pr@lists.gentoo.org, gwn-feedback@gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-pr] Article: The 7 Most Influential GNU/Linux Distributions Message-ID: <20071011055728.GJ19824@supernova> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-pr@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-pr@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: a346f686-99ac-4752-9535-92dd509a1f58 X-Archives-Hash: fc3c10413fac78d1d4e80da2922ca64e The 7 Most Influential GNU/Linux Distributions http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/11070_3701421_1 We're on page 2: "Gentoo is often said to be not a distribution so much as a philosophy. If so, that philosophy may be that of FreeBSD, from which it originally developed its emphasis on security and optimization. First released in 2002, it quickly gained a reputation as a geek's distro, largely because it required all packages to be compiled for maximum optimization for each system. This process could take days to complete, and could mean many wasted hours if you made a mistake. "Perhaps in response, Gentoo developed one of the comprehensive sets of documentation available in free software. Moreover, Gentoo has evolved over the years. It now features a Live CD and a graphical installer, while retaining a high degree of customization. In addition, probably only Debian supports a greater number of hardware architectures. "Since the departure of Daniel Robbins in 2004 to work at Microsoft, Gentoo seems to have lost direction. Robbins's recent blog suggesting that the governance of the distribution was in such disarray that control of it might as well pass to him, while not altogether serious, serves only to emphasize the lack of organization and direction in the distribution. Yet, while Gentoo itself may have lost much of its prominence, it remains the source of several other distributions, such as Sabayon and Ututo." Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-pr@gentoo.org mailing list