On Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > 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.
no, not treason. Leeches. For using gentoo's rsync-mirrors. But you said it yourself, it is bloated. I do not want bloat. And for your friends - the last two releases have a gnome (argh!) livecd with a (buggy) graphical installer... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
