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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev]  Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo
From:       Dale <rdalek1967 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-09-13 14:36:39
Message-ID: 4AAD0377.8070001 () gmail ! com
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Duncan wrote:
> Jesús Guerrero posted on Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:11:42 +0200 as excerpted:
>
>   
>> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:02:44 +0200, Sebastian Pipping
>> <webmaster@hartwork.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> Among other information the Gentoo page at DistroWatch [1] displays a
>>> table on about 200 selected packages [2] and how up to date Gentoo is
>>> per package.  I assume that DistroWatch is still one of the first
>>> places people go to get a feeling for a Distro they heard about,
>>> besides Wikpedia and ${distro}.org.
>>>       
>> Seriously, I doubt that the average Gentoo user comes from Distrowatch.
>> Gentoo is born from a necessity which is very different from the usual
>> binary distro. Gentoo has never been about fame or marketing.
>>     
>
> ++
>
>   
- -  I came here because of distrowatch.  I started with Mandrake 9.1
but didn't like the upgrade process.  I went to distrowatch to see what
else I could find to use.  I found about about Gentoo and here I am,
years later using Gentoo. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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