Gentoo Linux

Wed Apr 3 03:36:33 EST 2002

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OK, 
Well I feel that I have to add my $.02 worth here.. 
One of the problems I see facing Linux has already been done.&nbsp; Unix
splintered off into separate groups that did &quot;their own thing&quot;
back when.&nbsp; I see this already happening to Linux.&nbsp; I am ALL
for open source, it just bothers me that all these &quot;wannabe's&quot;
will make their own distro which is just a collection of work that they
didn't do or contribute to, yet they wanna make money from it. 
Yes, it is perfectly acceptable&nbsp; by the terms of GNU copyleft, but
that still doesn't make it right.&nbsp; If I did nothing but collected
what is needed to build a 'basic' Linux box, with no appreciable
additions, I would feel like a heel by charging for that, regardless that
'my time is money'. 
 
I think the FHS&nbsp; NEEDS to become a reality, and that Every
linux distro follow it, standardization is not necessarily a bad
thing.&nbsp; It will only make us stronger in the long run if it doesn't
matter that 'so &amp; so' learned on Debian or RH or Slackware, as long
as the FHS is in place, then the files that matter will be where they
should be. 
 
That is one of the strengths of proprietary systems, things are where you
expect them to be, each time/every time. 
 
Just my $.02 
 
Chaz® 
 
At 07:48 PM 4/2/02 -0500, you wrote: 
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Thought someone might be interested
in this.&nbsp; Has anyone checked out Gentoo? 
 
<a href="http://www.gentoo.org/index-about.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.gentoo.org/index-about.html</a> 
 
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