So Gentoo is more like Windows then. If you go ahead and do all the available updates you're likely to break your machine but if you're selective things will run smoother :) Wait, Windows has branches too! You have the 9X family and the NT family!
That's all for my mini rant. Mr O. --- Jack Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 10:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The key to having a stable Gentoo system is the same as with > any other > > OS-- pick your updates carefully. > > Baloney... if you run a cron job to update and install updates > nightly > on say, Debian stable, you can bet 98% of the time you'll not > blow up > your box.. You can't say the same thing on a Gentoo box. You > have to > manually choose your updates as you've mentioned above. > That company was interested in having Gentoo run on 2500 > workstations > and some infrastructure boxes which would have amounted to > support > contracts in the hundreds of thousands. I don't think Gentoo > could meet > the requirements and didn't get that contract. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
