If a Gentoo system uses entirely stable packages, upgrades are a simple command away. But then you have to wait hours, even days, for much of the system to be recompiled. It's more than most users would tolerate. There are reasons many roll their eyes when they see someone spend hours on a KDE install.
Gentoo is an excellent distro, with one of the most comprehensive repositories of packages of any Linux distribution. It is powerful and excellently constructed. But to say maintenance and upgrading is easy is like saying Windows is as suitable as Unix/Linux in a server environment. It's just not true and realistic.
-Pingveno
Ryan Viljoen wrote:
Hahah I get batted by my friends regularly about using Gentoo and not Suse and such. Apparently it requires to much constructive work to keep it running or get it running for that matter but then they dont understand anything about keeping your system uptodate with and emerge --synce emerge --world do they?! I wont even get onto my Windows using friends though they just shake their heads. I suppose each person is a zealot for their favourite distro heck I am for Gentoo, I guess thats just linux users for you :/
Cheers Rav
On 5/19/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far enough "out there" to warrant this type of attitude? It seems like these people are conservatives unwilling to roll with the changes to me.
- Grant
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