From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GwRtC-0004iD-Fv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:27:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBINLLBf004552; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:21:21 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out5.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBINEp2b011629 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:14:52 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C2E0170495 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:14:49 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200612181949.02474.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> References: <200612182155.11490.mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com> <988916.93964.qm@web31815.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <59f9c5160612180917g64fd16fdu27ac460ec7a23fb7@mail.gmail.com> <200612181949.02474.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:44:45 +0930 Message-Id: <1166483685.10797.21.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d6373c0b-6b2b-4256-ba19-f43250a04cba X-Archives-Hash: 15578a91b5f125116960b30673a5f810 On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 19:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > There will always be a current flavour-of-the-moment distro. > > A few years ago it was Red Hat 9, then Debian had a turn, then Gentoo > hit the headlines. A large part of the hype was ricers who thought that > having gcc unroll every loop would somehow give spectacular performance > increases. They were wrong and - thank god - most of them have left, > leaving us sane folks behind. who are you calling sane? oh.. that was a compliment ;) -- Iain Buchanan When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. -- James H. Boren -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list