Source Based Distro's.

[Cyber Source]

What are some of the issues you face if you don't keep your Gentoo up to 
date on a monthly basis?

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>--- mihakriket Steffens <mihakriket at msn.com> wrote:
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>>Hi All. I have tried many disto's and I keeping hearing alot about the 
>>source based distro's. As far as getting better performance or installing 
>>only what you want. I have never tried but have seen articles on these 
>>distro's. I was wondering if anybody can recommend a souce based distro?
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>>Thank you,
>>Harry
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>Gentoo has worked very well for me.  Been using it for close to 3 years now.. 
>(The longest I've run ANY one linux distro before I got fed up with it and
>switched).  My primary machine (down cause it's still in boxes) has never been
>reinstalled,  just kept up to date (weekly or so).
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>The initial installation took the longest of any distro, but I wouldn't label
>it as difficult. Just read the gentoo handbook and be prepared to get your
>hands a little dirty.
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>Updating the system has been a breeze( "emerge sync; emerge world -uD"), and
>I've only ran into minor issues (mainly due to me not reading the documentation
>nad doing something to mess up the system)  The gentoo forums are very good for
>solving the little issues that can creep up (esp if you fail to keep the
>machine reasonable up to date. (at least do it monthly at the very least))
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>Dave J. Andruczyk
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