From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MbDPk-0005KB-Cm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:58:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8CD4E03B8; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:58:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f177.google.com (mail-yx0-f177.google.com [209.85.210.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830A3E03B8 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:58:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe7 with SMTP id 7so5257758yxe.32 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:58:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SJlTLGCY6GXTJb6jkElTFV+RD1PMDC4FCPqOQous2YY=; b=KWj6QsDiVFptmH9Fp9rWf+mdMvPaMPaZ/yCev5lhVb3WK29Jf172dKH9Njdb3JrLCj 5g3ts6bwhvPEkfbu75XCC18W3e7ofTl7pfFuoB9ggGgqoFErzWsLCUjiMpODxVnmbDVN i9diXQhIgVDvXqwKCSXoLt/L7k2gA08TXlX8c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=quEVNs+NlfNr4mjrk4r0VD3tJF9x9gHuEHmxr7mii99xMyIXgVIhvucL4HdWbft6ir sXu5Dxz1KQteErGOf3tUNZWdPQdJ971cudpmD/Y5MoC8MDzg57tdYFa+cc6zTgXJ/47K KB1cC1ztBMZkgEJqqCwA936olVdPtfWfUYwsg= Received: by 10.90.90.20 with SMTP id n20mr46376agb.22.1250081926094; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:58:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.164.110? (r164h110.dixie-net.com [64.89.164.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm2307570aga.13.2009.08.12.05.58.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A82BC81.70604@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:58:41 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090628 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood References: <7bef1f890908112213r5a7e08a4k7703ca14a9d9bcfb@mail.gmail.com> <20090812093816.6c028d6f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090812093816.6c028d6f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2211daff-c6c7-47bd-a0fa-9e569bc2855a X-Archives-Hash: 6c24f97ca9e7eee14db06e250a8d0b1b Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:13:18 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > > >> I've watched Gentoo plummet in the popularity ratings, for example at >> distrowatch. >> > > Distrowatch isn't really an indicator of popularity. You'll notice that > distros rise up the rankings when a new release is due, because people > are checking to see if it's out yet. Gentoo has no such release cycles, > so once installed you have no need to visit Distrowatch. > > > Yep, I haven't looked at distrowatch in ages. I forgot it was even there. Dale :-) :-)