Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

["Danyelle Gragsone" <ladynikon@gmail.com>]

I just stepped back into gentoo after a long too long jump to ubuntu.
I had no time to do all the tinkering of things that is required in
gentoo sometimes.  My ability to do things deminished greatly!.  I am
back in the gentoo seat to remember long lost skills.  I totally did
not like the livecd install.  I went back to the universal install
cd's and all is well.  I am a qa'r so you know what my next test will
be ;).  I think like many distro's people tend to flock to new or new
to them distros to see what its like. Gentoo is one of the distros I
learned the most with as with I am sure many of its other users.
Gentoo still by far ( to me ) has the best documentation and user help
out!

LOVE LIVE GENTOO!

On 12/18/06, Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 18 December 2006 20:17, Grant wrote:
> > > I
> > > personally still love Gentoo.
> >
> > What's the problem then? :)
>
> Another question would be, how many of us have made healthy progress in our general knowledge of
> Linux all thanks to the gentoo user guides/howto(s) and the time spent installing gentoo on our
> servers?
>
> I really benefited from the "cookbook" approach that the user manual takes.  It gently opened my
> eyes to many lower level processes that were always shielded from my eyes on many other distro's
> that I have used.  For this reason Gentoo will always hold a special place in my heart. :o)
>
> However, I believe that gentoo's health is completely dependent on the number of talented
> developers that devote much of their personal time refining and debugging portage and it vast
> software tree.  IMHO, if we would like to see Gentoo maintain healthy growth, more of us happy
> <less experienced> users should find ways to assisting the core developers by relieving them from
> the more mundane & redementry tasks.  I am sure that the portage tree is already large enough that
> it is a daunting challenge for the limited number of developers to maintain it and keep it upto
> date with new software releases.
>
> Next time we see a call for assistance in the weekly news letter, we would do well to spend a few
> hours each week answering that call.
>
> Well that's my two cents anyway.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Broersma Jr.
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