Got it.
"Ward, aren't you being a little hard on the beaver?"
I don't believe I shared my personal Gentoo opinion. Instead I mused
about a hilarious website and Gentoo's popularity growing and fading
like a wave...
Approx. 4 years ago I tried Gentoo once for a few days and discovered
it wasn't for me.
"Hi... My name is Joel and I'm a "Distro-XYZ" user." Sounds like a
support group intro to me.
No axe to grind, it is just my personal preference.
I prefer not to drink instant coffee also, so I merely go elsewhere
for my warm, slightly burnt, caffeinated goods.
As always your mileage can and will vary...
Actually I was mostly amused with the odd autos makes me want to do
the following to 15+ year old Honda Civic showing lots of rust:
put a rear wing with a half sheet of plywood held on with drywall screws
Spray the home-made wing neon yellow spray can to not match the car
(don't mask the car first)
remove the exhaust with a sawzall at the headers (loud with real flames)
leave a pair of custom exhaust pipe tips out the rear (leaving the
labling of Folgers coffee).
hood scoop made with a sawzall duct tape and a Cheerios box
replace all the wheels with 4 "donut" spares.
drive it up and down the street with a really bad car stereo
blasting "Tom's Diner".
Anyone have a spent, near end-of-life donor car in their driveway?
(on second thought, nevermind)
Joel
From: Gary Hanley <gary(a)hanley.net>
Subject: Re: [Wlug] Gentoo
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
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Where is Barbara Billingsley when you need her? :-)
On 03/24/2011 04:27 PM, joel d wrote:
> Wow.
> I have never been to Gentoo is Rice before.
> That guy has some issues but I missed why he was so upset ;-)
> Was very entertained by the highly visually modified but still stock
> underpowered autos.
> Pics are a "People of Walmart" for the auto world.
>
> That Gentoo's install numbers are fading:
> everyone that wants it is upgrading as Jamie mentioned
> dying due to Ubuntu adoption/popularity from the article
> developers numbers dwindling from the article
> no longer the cool distro for techies or average users (we want to
> be cool too)
> some other reasons...
> or is it the end of it's technology "wave"
>
> IMHO, most technology comes and goes in 1 to 8 year waves.
>
> A technology wave example is the Slackware disto.
> Who else remembers running Slackware (back when it was rather cool)?
> Not sure I even know if they still release Slack anymore (I did just
> go there and yup they do).
>
> Three related waves which took longer admidedly were
> centralized processing and dumb terminals of the simpler good old days
> modern servers and intelligent desktops with processing power
> back to virtual machines (and thin clients which are really akin to
> fancy terminals)
>
> Joel
