Gentoo Linux in turmoil
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Oh no. My favorite linux distro, Gentoo, seems to be in turmoil. The server that hosts this blog runs Gentoo. In a blog entry written by Daniel Robbins (the creator of Gentoo Linux) he writes about the unfortunate news that the Gentoo Foundation’s charter has been revoked for several weeks, which basically means that as of this moment the Gentoo Foundation no longer exists. You will not find a trace of this on the official Gentoo website.
Daniel left the Gentoo project but can’t watch from the sideline how things get worse. He ends the blog entry with some positive news that he is going to offer to clean up the mess under certain conditions. The offer is now also online and you can find it here. Daniel states that a lot will have to change. Daniel is willing to clean up the mess under certain conditions. He wants all trustees to accept his leadership and the trustees he appoints. So he needs some kind of totalitarian regime to clean up the mess in an acceptable time. I normally do not support or sympathize with totalitarian regimes as absolute power corrupts, but in this case: Go Daniel! Go! Get in and save one of the best Linux (meta-) distributions out there.