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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:09:57AM +0200, galevsky@gmail.com wrote:
> Michael Pobega wrote:
> >4) Rolling releases
> >
> >The only other distribution that has rolling releases (Or, no releases
> >at all) is Gentoo, but Gentoo didn't have a strong stance on free
> >software or stability, and their developer base seems to be falling
> >apart, so I decided not to go with Gentoo (Plus their mailing list is
> >slow as hell. Eight threads in a month?)
>
> Just a few words about the ML, the Gentoo subscribers are composed
> mainly with very experienced people that are waiting newbies to
> provide some help, since the philosophy of these linux users is a bit
> different of what you can see on Debian ML.How many posts on debian
> can be resolved just by reading man pages, getting help on HowTo, or
> browsing tldp ?
>
> Concerning the number of posts, Gentoo have thousands a month, and
> dozens of threads.
> Moreover OT messages are unusual.
>
> I am not telling that one is better than the other, I just don't want
> that people make wrong ideas.
>
> As for the developers, things are getting better since a while. But it
> is true Gentoo has known troubles recently.
>
> Gal'
>
Well I wasn't trying to insult Gentoo, they definitely have a larger
forum community than our mailing list has (If you google "forums"
Gentoo is actually the first result).
The only reason I didn't meantion the pros of Gentoo is because I was
talking about Debian, not Gentoo. I didn't really want to go THAT
off-topic.
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