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 1GwMDd-0006ae-Po for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:24:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBIHKPT3010755; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:20:25 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.251]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBIHHGiA032311 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:17:17 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so414229ana for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:17:14 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LvpCH6oZn96U12ZJ8DKyY+gxvIPqpT0Rn/qq8YE5XF0HV+Ay7AWPetJRy5U3ichdL92dvycxNAXJ5XMjueyUbN3U0S5xnVh9s4vJsgeqUcNNdD7bph4ylS74DD/+eut5zM2w995TVfw1EUNHgwisum4eqkjiRuzYanknZ/Rjlk0= Received: by 10.78.166.7 with SMTP id o7mr3198590hue.1166462232379; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:17:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.140.12 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:17:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <59f9c5160612180917g64fd16fdu27ac460ec7a23fb7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:17:12 -0500 From: "Danyelle Gragsone" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? In-Reply-To: <988916.93964.qm@web31815.mail.mud.yahoo.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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200612182155.11490.mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com> <988916.93964.qm@web31815.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: a871fae4-5e5c-4ce6-b3c3-7d3dd3450268 X-Archives-Hash: f0a826ddd995d6aeccf38fa6c31ee6d7 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 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 > 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. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list