I run slackware-current since I stopped being able to cope with Gentoo's XPDF dependency -- I forget which package it is which requires it. About the only problem I have with it is it keeps updating me to Seamonkey 2.0 beta 2 when I don't want it (I've given up fighting that). I actually would recommend it -- and of course this is the unstable version which should become Slackware 14. On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:27 PM, joel d <joelgroup@gmail.com> 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)

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Just for hysterical counterpoint, I tried running gentoo about... dunno, six or so years ago. Having to compile everything was compelling when just a simple compiler flag change to optimze for a particular i686 type processor. But now days, the speed improvements are down in the noise. I've been a happy Debian user for years nad years now. I run Ubuntu Alphas on my desktop, but since I mount all my data from NFS, I run that server on Debian Squeeze. 175 days of uptime at my house, even with lots of patches. Probably should reboot to get the updated kernel into things. But anyway, I find that Debian gives me most of the control I want, and none of the hassle of having to compile stuff from scratch, though I do realize that Gentoo does off pre-compiled stuff now too. Dunno... just a data point, no strong feelings one way or another. John --