eeePC, Gentoo, what else?
eeePC, I’m still waiting for it, so not much to say apart the increasing excitement. I promise you to write more info as soon as I put my hands on it
The real reason that led me writing this blog post is to clarify my previous statements on Gentoo, Portage status and ebuilds. The Gentoo-KDE team misunderstood my words in two ways:
1) I didn’t write about KDE4 ebuilds themselves, they’re good if not perfect and I want to thank Philantrop and his team for all the hard work and community support.
2) I didn’t write that all gentoo devs are morons, absolutely, there are great guys there, I know some of you and frankly, I just think there are two kinds of developers, reality-disconnected/arrogants and quite, yet kind busy bees. Those are zmedico, he goes straight to the point, a great guy, Philantrop, our KDE4 hero, hkBst, always kind and many others I don’t have much time to write about at the moment (sorry!).
I really think that there would be really something to do to help Gentoo get back to glory. Open the Portage tree, moving it to a distributed SCM (git, mercurial?) and allow “child” projects to join its maintenance. In few words: work together, without bias, without anger. See how the Linux kernel source code is currently handled, each project could have its own tree, each project could pull or push stuff from one to another and the best stuff merged into the official one. If you really want a new great Gentoo, together we can, great potential is already “in place”
Just my 0,02€. Make your offer