Comments on: Return to Gentoo

By: SaigonNezumi (Kevin)

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:30:56 +0000

Wow, it is nice to see Gentoo guys returning. I just finally made the move back to Gentoo. Portage 2.0 is much better too and wow, the compile times have sure improved since I left a couple years ago

By: steveL

steveL — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:12:56 +0000

Really glad you’ve come back to Gentoo; from looking at the mail archives last year, you’re one of the old-skool greats.

By: Kevin Mark

Kevin Mark — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:22:04 +0000

I think you expected more from the Ubuntu development cycle then they could give. There are the 2000 core packages(gnome,bash,firefox…) that get higher priority. If yours was not core, its basically someone recompiling a Debian source package for the Ubuntu environment. Any more fixes would be made by anyone interested through the MOTU process or a patch from you. So you could have contributed a patch if one existed, which would have made for the fastest fix. Ubuntu is more open to devs/fixes than Debian. The comment about the user community of Ubuntu being less knowledgeable on average is true because of its focus. Some folks ask veiled Ubuntu questions in Debian forums/irc because of the higher avearge knowlege. Debian has a 2 yr cycle, Ubuntu 6 months. I am not familar with Gentoo’s.

By: Mart Raudsepp

Mart Raudsepp — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:56:23 +0000

Whoot, welcome back!

By: HeavyGod

HeavyGod — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:27:59 +0000

Really good and really interesting post. I expect (and other readers maybe :)) new useful posts from you!
Good luck and successes in blogging!

By: amin

amin — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:21:35 +0000

I agree with you.
you can test debian but gentoo is a greatest distro for anytime
first gentoo , then debian.
goodluck

By: talman

talman — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:30:31 +0000

I think this two distributions are incomparable.
By the way, thanks to the backports repository in ubuntu you can be bleeding edge now.

By: tumb

tumb — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:14:14 +0000

Consider Arch Linux as a possible option to Gentoo. Although, I’m not sure how “bleeding edge” you want things. I know its more bleeding edge than Ubuntu! LOL!

By: James

James — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:43:45 +0000

Debian testing/unstable don’t have the drawbacks listed above.