On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 21:25 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:02:00PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: > > Bcc: > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] unsubscribe > > Reply-To: > > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Ahem... I think you missed your queue. > > Sorry -- I hadn't had my coffee yet. > > I also feel a little guilty that my only contribution as an AT is to > make fun of people trying to unsubscribe from the list. It's not > exactly productive, and only serves to reinforce the bad rep that Gentoo > has. > > Dustin Way off topic, but since there is none for this I don't feel too bad.
Where do people get the idea that Gentoo has a bad reputation? I've come across just as many fanatics using other distros (Debian and Slackware come to mind) as I have using Gentoo. Granted the fanatics can be irritating, but I've noticed that if you respect their opinion, even if you don't agree, they have useful information to share. Gentoo has better documentation, IMNSHO, then most other non-commercial distros do. The only better documentation I've come across was with SuSE 8.2, a commercial distro, with paid tech writers and editors (I can't really comment on what the documentation is like in post-Novell iterations). To be honest, the quality wasn't that much better then Gentoo. Being as uninterested with the developer politics as I am, I know that there has been a turn over in developers for what sounds like inter-personal reasons. But that is normal on any large project where people who care about what they are doing are working. It's human nature to get emotionally involved in your view and it causes excessive bad feelings if/when your idea is overruled. It could be the ricers giving Gentoo a bad name, but you have ricers trying to uber-optimize pretty much anything. Maybe they are just more vocal about it with a source-based distro then a binary distro. It is very unlikely that it's caused by the people manning the IRC channels or who partake in the forums. With a very few rare exceptions that are easily ignored, the people are uniformly helpful, knowledgeable and willing to assist even the most bone-headed of people (I fall into the bone-headed variety myself.. ;-) ) Just wanted to get that thought out there for the rest of the list. It's true Gentoo is not the be all and end all of distros. But is definitely doesn't deserve any special note for doing things badly. ^^ShadowHawk^^ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
