On Wed, 18 May 2005, Pingveno wrote: > 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.
Surely that depends on your hardware... > 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. Depends what yardstick you are comparing against - if you've never had to maintain RH boxes for instance you wouldn't know how much easier Gentoo really is. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
