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jgeorkas n00b
Joined: 17 Jun 2014 Posts: 2
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:36 pm Post subject: Is Gentoo still alive? |
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I was a Gentoo fun, almost 10 years ago. I have been using many different Linux distros since then... Now I am looking to return to Gentoo. But is Gentoo still alive and kicking? |
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10590 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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See this post for your answer.
Seriously, as I write this there are 334 people online on the Forums. There are currently over 200 developers actively contributing. A good way to see what some of the Gentoo Developers are working on is to look at the Planet Gentoo blog aggregator.
- John _________________ I can confirm that I have received between 0 and 499 National Security Letters. |
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jgeorkas n00b
Joined: 17 Jun 2014 Posts: 2
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Thainks!!! I 'll migrate to Gentoo in the next 24 hours!!!! Lets get our hand "dirty"!!! LOL |
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khayyam Watchman
Joined: 07 Jun 2012 Posts: 6227 Location: Room 101
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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John R. Graham wrote: | Seriously, as I write this there are 334 people online on the Forums. |
John ... and 333 of those are sock puppet accounts created for the purpose of posting to that same thread :)
John R. Graham wrote: | There are currently over 200 developers actively contributing. A good way to see what some of the Gentoo Developers are working on is to look at the Planet Gentoo blog aggregator. |
You're supposed to say: "no one here but us wee mouses" ... otherwise someone might get the idea to poke that dead corpse with a stick :)
squeak, squeak ... khay |
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10590 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Now, now. If you aren't a sock puppet and I'm not a sock puppet, then there must be no more than 332.
- John _________________ I can confirm that I have received between 0 and 499 National Security Letters. |
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khayyam Watchman
Joined: 07 Jun 2012 Posts: 6227 Location: Room 101
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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John R. Graham wrote: | Now, now. If you aren't a sock puppet and I'm not a sock puppet, then there must be no more than 332. ;) |
John ... you've obviously never washed socks :)
best ... khay |
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10590 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Besides, I'm not a sock puppet. If anything, I'm a Heuristically-programmed ALgorithmic computer. I pass the Turing test almost every day, though.
- John _________________ I can confirm that I have received between 0 and 499 National Security Letters. |
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nlsa8z6zoz7lyih3ap Guru
Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 388 Location: Canada
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 12:33 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | But is Gentoo still alive and kicking? |
I have been using Gentoo for a long long time. My original installation was on 500mghz emonster.
In my opinion, Gentoo has never been better than it is right now.. Welcome back. |
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livibetter n00b
Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 63 Location: Taipei, Taiwan
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:08 am Post subject: Re: Is Gentoo still alive? |
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jgeorkas wrote: | I was a Gentoo fun, almost 10 years ago. [...] |
You could "almost" be this guy.
Me, 4 years and 302 days left to be that guy, |
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eccerr0r Watchman
Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 9709 Location: almost Mile High in the USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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Woah. I think I hit the 10 year mark with Gentoo and totally forgot... And almost 10 years on f.g.o. _________________ Intel Core i7 2700K/Radeon R7 250/24GB DDR3/256GB SSD
What am I supposed watching? |
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greyspoke Apprentice
Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 171
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:37 am Post subject: |
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OK that deals with the alive part...
Gentoo still kicks me in the nuts occasionally, but not so much as it did. But it still kicks. |
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sp4rk3r n00b
Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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eccerr0r wrote: | Woah. I think I hit the 10 year mark with Gentoo and totally forgot... And almost 10 years on f.g.o. |
It hadn't occurred to me until I read your post, but I just hit my 10 year too ... happy anniversary. :) |
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griever n00b
Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 57
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 10:53 am Post subject: |
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I don't think I can honestly say I've been using Gentoo for as long as my f.g.o account has been around.
I've gotten kicked in the nuts many times over the years, barely staying on my feet by lurking these forums (I don't have any background in computers or programming). I've stormed out to move onto "friendlier" distros multiple times, swearing I'd never come back. And every time, Gentoo hung out "USE flags ... compile only the features you want ..." in front of me, not even bothering to hide the steel toe boots. Even with the pain fresh in my mind, I came running back...
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54420 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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jgeorkas,
You can't actually leave Gentoo. We knew you would return one day, just not when.
Welcome back. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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hasufell Retired Dev
Joined: 29 Oct 2011 Posts: 429
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:50 pm Post subject: Re: Is Gentoo still alive? |
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jgeorkas wrote: | But is Gentoo still alive and kicking? |
Alive yes, but I won't lie to you:
* openrc vs systemd war and not many people actively working on openrc
* 3 package managers, one being total crap, one developed by a troll and one abandoned (the crappy one being the gentoo standard and currently seeking more devs who want to deal with that kind of code)
* not enough devs anywhere, really... anywhere
* a lot of complicated conversions lately, like new design of python eclasses and multilib eclasses... some of these decisions jumped back in our face, hard. (although they also solve a lot of ancient problems)
* QA team was disbanded, currently no real tinderbox up (although some are working on it)
* a lot of work is "outsourced" to overlays and never makes it back to the main tree... decreasing consistency and QA
Despite all that, gentoo still kicks ass. We just need help, including users who file bug reports. |
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