Yes, a fork is where someone(s) takes a distro and decides to go in another direction. Sort of like the Secure Hardened Gentoo - it's based on Gentoo but has been setup to achieve a specific purpose.
I don't see where it will effect Gentoo. Gentoo will be gentoo and will continue. As far as I know it's just him. He did hire someone from Gentoo sometime back. Developers are going to come and go on a open source project. They're doing it on their own time and if the situation changes (such as with someone who said they were being transferred by the army) they may have to drop doing Gentoo. > Wow this whole fork thing is getting big. I was just > wondering if I got this whole story right. > > Trying to figure out what exactly a "fork" is. Is that > when they take the source code of a distro and make > their own out of it? Thats the conclusion that I came > up with after reading. Also, by my reading ;), its > that Zach did not agree with someone I think his name > is Daniel, so he left and took other developers with > him to create Zynot. Am I right? > > As a beginner to Gentoo, Im about to install it, does > this fork thing have an end result on the user? Sorry > for all these questions, just really curious. Thanks > for your time. > > ===== > -Miguel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
