On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:14, Grant wrote: > Hey Mark, > > Thanks for the insight. I hope it never happens, but if the day comes > when Gentoo suffers a lack of contributors to such an extent that I > have to find a new distro, where will I go? Is Debian the only other > meta-distro out there? It's not exactly thriving is it? Is the > meta-distro concept perhaps flawed? The thought of installing the > latest Ubuntu release, wading through a bunch of software I'll never > use, and waiting for the next big release before anything is updated > makes me wanna throw up. > > - Grant
I hope I'm not too of-topic. I've never been able to bring friends to try out Gentoo. Tell them they'll be working for days to get a cli distro working... if they get there, setting up X is sure to be the end of the experiment. What I mean is: Gentoo is for experimented users, and those who'd like to become experimented. I consider myself not to be a noob anymore, after 8 years of using Linux, but my last gentoo install still waits to get finished. I tried to get sound, and that crashed the nvidia module, and now I don't have time to cure that. Now, on the next partition, I have installed Sabayon. It's bloated OK, it's not compiled for my machine OK, but I had it up and running in an hour. I still have to test the idea of installing Sabayon, modifying make.conf and emerging world to see what happens. I think the future of Gentoo could be that: an "easy install" for the mass, and he opportunity for the geeks to tweak that install or directly go for the total customisation. I'm surprised I haven't heard more about Sabayon on this list, just as if the "real" Gentoo users feel it's a treason. Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
