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Is Gentoo in crisis?
That’s a question a lot of people have been asking lately, with the news about the nonprofit foundation, the lack of news updates on the homepage, and the canceled release. I answer it in a short LWN...
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Improving Gentoo’s PR
This won’t be a long post, because I’m tired. Sorry for the dearth of posts on here, but I’ve been busy writing other things—see below. For anyone who hasn’t heard, I took over as lead of Gentoo’s...
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LCA attendees rank Gentoo #4 distro
Everybody who went to LCA entered their distro, editor, and shell upon registration. Peter Lieverdink posted graphs of the results. Gentoo made an excellent showing, coming in 4th after Ubuntu, Debian...
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Early coverage of Gentoo 2008.0
Here’s links to a few places that posted announcements for 2008.0. Go there and get involved by voting and commenting! Slashdot Digg Gentoo 2008.0 makes the Digg frontpage Reddit DistroWatch (original...
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Gentoo: New release, “new” leadership
I wrote an article discussing Gentoo’s new release and new council for this week’s LWN.net. If you’ve read my earlier blog posts and other posts on Planet Gentoo regarding 2008.0, there won’t be a...
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What do you think of the Gentoo website?
The main Gentoo website has looked pretty similar since it was created in 2001. None of the from-scratch redesigns have come to fruition, so I’m curious whether this is something people even want. Is...
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links for 2009-11-06
The trough of disillusionment for Ubuntu? “The Hype Cycle describes the way that new technologies and projects are perceived over time, if they do a good job of handling themselves, going from a...
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A different take on the Banshee/Canonical conflict
The latest drama sweeping across the open-source world is Canonical’s decision to redirect affiliate profits from music bought in the Banshee music player from 100% GNOME to a 25%/75% split (with...
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The state of Gentoo
I just published an article over at LWN called “The state of Gentoo.” In it, I talk about Gentoo’s progress over the past few years as well as its current problems, how they’re affecting Gentoo’s user...
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Gentoo Linux, or Why in the World You Should Compile Everything [Video]
I gave an introductory talk on Gentoo at a local BarCamp called MinneBar a couple of months back, and the videos were just posted online. The sound isn’t perfect but it’s perfectly understandable....
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