Source Based Distro's.

[Josh Johnson]

In the past I've heard of people having issues with waiting too long 
between updates.  But I've gone months 
without updating, just because everything was going kosher, and then a new 
version of a program would come out and I would upgrade the whole system. 
I've never had a problem. But after a long time, a whole system update can 
take quite a while, depending on if there are programs like gcc, mozilla, 
xfree, or openoffice that need updating.

-JoshJ
http://lotuseaters.no-ip.com

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Cyber Source wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> 
>> 
>> > 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?
>> > 
>> > Thank you,
>> > Harry
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
>> 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).
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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))
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dave J. Andruczyk
>> 
>>
>>
>> 
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