Re:Funtoo Linux is shutting down
by massysett on Friday July 26, 2024 @06:48PM
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These folks are volunteers giving me stuff for free, so I’m not fit to say what they should be doing with their free time.
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It's on-topic when the author said:
> Funtoo started as a philosophy to create a fun community of contributors building something great together. For me, it's no longer that so I need to move on to other things.
It's clear that his intention was to build a community around his vision and it's always sad to see when that doesn't work out.
Although a bulk of my career has been in the IT space, I've been a developer for a lot longer. I can tell you, anytime you build software as a means to a "community" it never works out. You don't build software to get a "community", you build software and a "community" will eventually evolve around it organically. A developer should never focus on anything beyond the software itself. When you lose focus of the software you are building, the project will suffer.
That's been my experience. YMMV.
Re:Funtoo Linux is shutting down
by gunapologist99 on Friday July 26, 2024 @09:18PM
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FYI, this is the guy who literally built the Gentoo community from scratch in the early 2000s.
yeah - given his comments about hosting containers and what-not, it sounded like he has some community. I'm guessing after 20 years of doing distro's he's just looking for a new itch to scratch. Looking forward to seeing what it is..
I worked with Drobbins way back in like '00 on Stampede Linux. He's been doing cool distro stuff for like 20+ years now. I'm a bit sad its not fun for him anymore, but I look forward to hearing about what he tries next :-)