On Saturday 10 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final.
Why? What features are you expecting? > The comment is, Gentoo > home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo > is "alive" becomes tricky because the final is months late and little > motion on the home page. That's about all most people inspect. You are right, many people take conclusions from superficial looks. > So bottom line, impressions of Gentoo are going south even before we > test. I don't think we should make Gentoo more appealing, you can attract people that later will dislike its lack of eye-candy, better be honest :-) > Some sort of "progress bar" or chart showing bugs squashed and new > reported, maybe?? At least some kind of "ticker" showing "expected > final release date"? Counting lines of code or something? > > Personally I don't care when final ships - just knowing "present > expectations" or status with an easy home page glance is all I ask. Unlike other distros, Gentoo evolves linearly, not by leaps (releases). Indeed there's no strong distinction between updates and upgrades, if you keep it up-to-date, already have the latest "release". Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r2, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun May 4 08:26:42 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.04 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list