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 1I5mVz-0003kU-Bc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:50:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l63Hn1Gw012444; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 17:49:01 GMT Received: from email.siw.ch (email.siw.ch [217.197.213.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l63HfdH9003058 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 17:41:40 GMT Received: from tcoulon@decoulon.ch by email.siw.ch (MDaemon PRO v9.5.6) with ESMTP id md50005406644.msg for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:42:41 +0200 From: Thierry de Coulon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:41:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <49bf44f10707030907jaa9f524maef27beb2a7c9df@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0707030946x5e951d3dg1c7dd261ee89f1d0@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10707031014l5c52585fo6087c9e4502bf401@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10707031014l5c52585fo6087c9e4502bf401@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707031941.34493.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> X-Authenticated-Sender: tcoulon@decoulon.ch X-Lookup-Warning: EHLO lookup on tcoulon@decoulon.ch does not match 84.226.126.92 X-MDRemoteIP: 84.226.126.92 X-Return-Path: tcoulon@decoulon.ch X-Envelope-From: tcoulon@decoulon.ch X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-MDAV-Processed: email.siw.ch, Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:42:41 +0200 X-Archives-Salt: 9c04ce1f-5da1-4260-8e05-45ac59614267 X-Archives-Hash: c348fff5219d19b4e6812b98353c6685 On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:14, Grant wrote: > Hey Mark, > > Thanks for the insight. I hope it never happens, but if the day comes > when Gentoo suffers a lack of contributors to such an extent that I > have to find a new distro, where will I go? Is Debian the only other > meta-distro out there? It's not exactly thriving is it? Is the > meta-distro concept perhaps flawed? The thought of installing the > latest Ubuntu release, wading through a bunch of software I'll never > use, and waiting for the next big release before anything is updated > makes me wanna throw up. > > - Grant I hope I'm not too of-topic. I've never been able to bring friends to try out Gentoo. Tell them they'll be working for days to get a cli distro working... if they get there, setting up X is sure to be the end of the experiment. What I mean is: Gentoo is for experimented users, and those who'd like to become experimented. I consider myself not to be a noob anymore, after 8 years of using Linux, but my last gentoo install still waits to get finished. I tried to get sound, and that crashed the nvidia module, and now I don't have time to cure that. Now, on the next partition, I have installed Sabayon. It's bloated OK, it's not compiled for my machine OK, but I had it up and running in an hour. I still have to test the idea of installing Sabayon, modifying make.conf and emerging world to see what happens. I think the future of Gentoo could be that: an "easy install" for the mass, and he opportunity for the geeks to tweak that install or directly go for the total customisation. I'm surprised I haven't heard more about Sabayon on this list, just as if the "real" Gentoo users feel it's a treason. Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list