Last week, the Gentoo project entered the lowest point of its 7-year old existence. The single most telling statement attesting to this fact is this brief excerpt from the current issue of Gentoo Weekly News:

The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
* Daniel Robbins (drobbins) AMD64 team

The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
* Daniel Robbins (drobbins)

Yes, this is the same Daniel Robbins who founded Gentoo Linux back in the year 2000 and who left the project in 2004 for personal reasons. He officially re-joined the Gentoo development team two weeks ago - only to resign a few days later. The reason? Strong personal attacks by some of the current developers of the project.
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i think asians dont worry and cant be bother about other people's family things ...


//but i can be wrong ...

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So he got a better offer, that doesn't mean the project is in trouble.

I thought things at Gentoo had been running quite smoothly since the "benevolent dictator" left in 2004. I never even considered using it before the GUI installer was introduced in rel. 2006.0.

I don't think Gentoo is dying and the article at distrowatch seems to blow things out of proportion. It also seems like Ladislav has taken up writing doomsday articles about certain distros. In recent weeks distrowatch has had articles about Mandriva dying, Debian and a similar one on Gentoo appeared in the distrowatch section of LinuxFormat.

Happy Birthday Shrikant! Thats all I had to add.

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Oh the drama!

Oh Thank You so much hehe

I have used Gentoo for some time now. It is very obvious something is very wrong. I think Gentoo is taking its last painful breaths.

It's a shame. Daniel Robbins is one of very, very few people who
have been able to write human readable documentation for Linux.

Ian Murdock left debian, It's still going; strong as ever.

So is just called "Deb" now? Or "The distribution formally known as Debian"?

Deb was or is Ian's wife. Did they get her with
the distro, or did Ian take her with him?

Why do you say that? I've been using gentoo since 2005.0 and I'm using it right now. I haven't noticed anything going wrong. am I missing something?

I have used gentoo since 1.4. Gentoo started going down around 2004. When Gentoo was new it was bleeding edge. Before Gentoo if you wanted the newest apps You ran Debian unstable, or Mandrake. People make ebuilds for new apps, but many of them never make it into the tree. The developers are just too picky about what gets into Gentoo. kde 4.x came out over nine months ago. Under the old leadership apps often got ebuilds with in hours of release. Ubontoo has had kde 4.x for some time now and they make it easy to install. If you want OLD stable software why not run Debian? Ubontoo is now what Gentoo was. Just about any new app you want to install Ubontoo has a package for it.

If Gentoo would split into Gentoo stable, Gentoo testing, and Gentoo unstable Gentoo could remain stable and grow at the same time as Debian did. Ubontoo came from the type of growth Gentoo needs badly.