Gentoo loses charter; Robbins offers to return [LWN.net]

Gentoo loses charter; Robbins offers to return

Posted Jan 14, 2008 18:19 UTC (Mon) by bk (guest, #25617)
Parent article: Gentoo loses charter; Robbins offers to return

This is a good thing. Over the past year or so Gentoo has stagnated. It still works and is a
good distribution, it's just that the developer talent is spread very thin so bugs linger, new
packages don't get added and generally the infrastructure struggles to keep up.

I welcome Daniel Robbins, hopefully he can help the situation.

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do NOT trust him

Posted Jan 14, 2008 19:04 UTC (Mon) by sylware (guest, #35259) [Link] (1 responses)

He is not to be trusted. Indeed he worked for Microsoft and nowadays he pushes hard Microsoft
based technologies.
He "founded" gentoo, but he was not him who brought gentoo where it is since he was kind of
"evicted" from "power" a loooong time ago.
Gentoo is the main source based distro, and there, proprietary software cannot match that much
flexibility. And let's keep .net(mono) optional in gentoo gnome (the ONLY mainstream distro
which offers such luxury...).
More over, gentoo does not need a new president and a full new team, just some late paperwork
to be done.

do NOT trust him

Posted Jan 15, 2008 19:45 UTC (Tue) by mrfredsmoothie (guest, #3100) [Link]

He "founded" gentoo, but he was not him who brought gentoo where it is since he was kind of "evicted" from "power" a loooong time ago.

That may be, but I agree w/ the post you're responding to that Gentoo has stagnated: they never released a 2007.1 release, the graphical installer for their 2007.0 release didn't work and the manual install instructions appeared to be out of date.

I agree that it's still a powerful, quality distro but IMHO it needs some kind of injection of focus or quality. Whether or not drobbins is the right person to provide that is another question.