On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 07:48:12AM -0800, Grant wrote > Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking > at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like > things being improved as quickly as possible.
One item (amongst many) that chased me away from Windows was the upgrade treadmill... 1993 Win3.1 1994 Win3.11 1995 Win95 1996 Win95OSr2 1997 And on the 1997th year, Go^H^H Gates rested 1998 Win98 1999 Win98SE 2000 WinME and Win2K 2001 WinXP Remember that Gentoo is a linux distro, meaning that it is an implementation based on Linus Torvalds' baby. You may be thinking back to the early days of Kernel 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, etc, etc. For whatever reason, 2.6 has been around for 4 years, with no signs of being replaced. Gentoo can't do much about that, or do you want to fork the linux kernel? There have been a lot of "minor" improvements that, taken together, have led to major overall improvement. Basically, linux has caught up to Windows, indeed 64-bit linux has been better than 64-Windows for the past year. > The concept is second to none, the execution of that concept is > fantastic, but it needs to keep moving forward. Do you have a list of significant improvements you want implemented? There were gaping holes in linux's abilities in the past. These problems have been fixed. Change simply for the sake of change is a relic of the Windows era. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm not repeating myself I'm an X Window user... I'm an ex-Windows-user -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
