I’ve had a dedicated fileserver for a while now. It ran Windows Home Server for a brief stint a few months ago, but as I’ve already posted, it was a load of rubbish. For the majority of the time, it’s been running Gentoo Linux - purely because I liked to keep the system as streamlined as possible, installing only what I used. It’s also taught me a lot about the inner workings of a modern Linux system.
Unfortunately, the time has come to say goodbye to Gentoo. It does what I need for now, but troubles are starting to arise with the future of the Gentoo Foundation that suggest switching to another distro would be better sooner rather than later. The foundation’s charter has been revoked for a while now, and even a simple visit to their website shows that it’s not being updated anymore. It’s an unfortunate situation. But anyone can see that the community is beginning to fall apart and the management just don’t have the same ideals that they used to.
So I’m making the obvious choice, and moving to Ubuntu. It’s much easier to run and maintain, support is extremely easy to come by, and the leadership is much more solid. Gentoo’s future remains uncertain, but Ubuntu’s isn’t.
That’s sad. When a major distribution withers and dies we lose a little bit of what makes Linux strong.
Yeah, and for that reason I’m really hoping that Gentoo comes back bigger & better in the future.