On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 01:33 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 02:54 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > You give me too much credit :-) > > > > > > There's also Neil, Wonko, Volker, Stroller, Grant, meino.cramer, Mick, > > > Paul, Harry, Albert, Alex, Walter, Alan Mackenzie (awesome name!), > > > James, kashani, Pandu and about a 1000 more whose names I can't exactly > > > recall right now. > > > > > > This here mailing-list has got the most varied and highest skills of > > > any technical list I've ever subscribed to. We have regular desktop > > > users, folks who work in server rooms, devs, owners of software > > > companies, regular sysadmins, fellows who ship embedded devices, and at > > > least one of everything in between. > > > > > > I don't mean to go all fuzzy feel-good here, but it's an honour to be > > > able to communicate and interact with so many skilled people for so many > > > years. > > > > > > > > > > That is true. There are lots who post a lot here. I just recall seeing > > some stats somewhere and me and you were the top two. That was about a > > year ago so it may have changed. Just had to go find that link again. > > Here it is: > > > > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml > > > > We have a new comer. lol > > > > I think the mailing lists, and forums, are one of the key features of > > Gentoo. The docs seemed to have slumped some but I think it was down to > > one or two people for a while. I think someone jumped in the fire a few > > weeks ago tho. Maybe they will catch up. I'm sure it is hard to keep > > up with all the changes that are going on tho. Gentoo has a LOT of > > stuff to document. > > > > If we are so skilled, why is the Fedora dev not listening you reckon? > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > > > Ha, I got on the list in 2005! Unfortunately it doesnt go back into the > 90's when I started with Gentoo and the learning curve was REALLY > steep :) > > BillK > Actually, thats a bit optimistic - 2002
moriah ~ # ls -alth /var/backups/rattus/20110710/tree/etc/ .... drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 104 Sep 6 2003 hsf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 May 13 2003 sysconfig drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jan 7 2003 devfs.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Nov 5 2002 svga drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jul 10 2002 sasl -rw------- 1 root root 12K Jul 7 2002 .procmailrc.swp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Jul 4 2002 oaf drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Jul 3 2002 sound -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 3 2002 .pwd.lock drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 112 Jul 3 2002 ssmtp Decommissioned a couple of weeks ago! BillK
