Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-11 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Sunday 11 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's more like a magnificent hand-made piece of fine Italian machinery. All Italian machinery I've had the misfortune to be acquainted with (from cars to washing machines) have turned out to be rust buckets (literally). Italians should stick to

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 May 2008, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Sunday 11 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's more like a magnificent hand-made piece of fine Italian machinery. All Italian machinery I've had the misfortune to be acquainted with (from cars to washing machines) have turned out to be rust

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Justin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 10 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Justin
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Saturday 10 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Mick
On Saturday 10 May 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. The comment is, Gentoo home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo is alive becomes tricky because the

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 10 May 2008 16:43:41 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OP has inadvertently given us some valuable feedback, which stands on its own and is irrelevant with the fact that he (like many other non-gentoo users) had mistaken Gentoo for yet-another-binary-distro. Having a user

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 May 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2008 16:43:41 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OP has inadvertently given us some valuable feedback, which stands on its own and is irrelevant with the fact that he (like many other non-gentoo users) had mistaken Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Mick
On Saturday 10 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Ah, but www.gentoo.org/doc actually does contain decent INFORMATION in a manner that I can find. Right, but I can think of better ways to search through it by category, by keyword, by arch, by whatever, than just use Google. All I ever seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 00:00 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Yep, gentoo.org really seems to have been created from devs and users for devs and users. There is nothing like a Features page or Why to choose Gentoo for newcomers. Heck, you have to search hard to even learn whether it is suitable

[gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-09 Thread davecode
Hi, We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. 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. So bottom line,