On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:45:16 +0100 Jérôme Bouat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le jeu 12/02/2004 à 23:28, Matthias F. Brandstetter a écrit : > > I would suggest you visit http://www.distrowatch.org/ > > I already saw it but could not see source based comparaison involving > Gentoo. > > I though I could find former users of Source Mage, Sorcerer, Lunar or > Onebase here. Sorcerer was forked by lunar, at which point Kylee (Sorcerer's founder) tried to pull the distro, with little fanfare and much uproar. A group of folks took what was available thanks to opensource, and kept sorcerer alive until Kylee came to get his ball back because he didn't want people to play with it, as far as I could tell. Since he had open sourced it, that wasn't possible, so the 2nd fork, SourceMage spun off. Not sure where Onebase fits in, is that a fork of Lunar? I don't know about Sorcery anymore, after Kylee's acting out, I didn't trust it or him and went with the SourceMage folks for a while. I worked some with the init files, hopefully they have cleaned them up since then. =), since they needed help maintaining/rewriting the code base and the packages, which they called "spells", which are written in bash. I even wrote a few "spells" I was proud of, the one for nethack was originally mine. I learnt a lot about bash and linux. However, the cutesy names started getting to me, and I had been looking at Gentoo for a while. The dependency checking is very elegant after dealing with Redhat, Slackware, Suse, Sorcery and then SourceMage. Also the use flags and compiler options rock! Also, read the Gentoo philosophy web-page, and I think the clincher for me were these 3 articles by D. Robbins: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-dist1.html http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-dist2.html http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-dist3.html neal -- Arithmetic: An obscure art no longer practiced in the world's developed countries. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
