On Monday 18 December 2006 19:17, Danyelle Gragsone wrote: > 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!
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. The current flavour seems to be Ubuntu, but that is waning too. They hit a few major teething problems with edgy and feisty like livecds that didn't work right and binary drivers. Who knows what will be next to be popular - Slackware? Debian? These things go up and down, and with a group as large and diverse as a distro, you get growing pains and procedures/personnel/cultures changes. But gentoo will always be here and I recommend you not to read too much into the daily ups and downs. Besides, like another poster said, if gentoo is your favourite distro and the maintainers need a hand, what's stopping any of us from becoming devs ourselves? alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
