[Novalug] Gentoo says, “We're Not Dead” -- was "Need embedded distro"

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET
Tue Oct 20 18:50:07 EDT 2009


Megan Larko wrote:
> Paul D. Bain wrote:
>> Joshua Newton wrote:
>>
>>>> [snip, snip]
>>>>
>>>> And my experience with Gentoo-- just x86, much less ~x86/~amd64 (the
>>>> entire point of *using* it) --is that the project is dying.  Or in fact
>>>> undead.  I say this as someone with a Gentoo ~x86 server (with overlays,
>>>> even) and a newly Ubuntuificated workstation.
>> Gentoo says, “We're Not Dead”
>> http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7570/1.html
> 
> Just FYI, I know of an entire branch that uses Gentoo exclusively for its big dawg servers.
> 
> megan

Well, of course you do, but that's just a Data Point, not a Trend or 
anything. And certainly the opposite of Embedded Systems.

JIM



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