On 01.12.2007 09:03, Alan wrote: > This used to be a debian system and was moved over to gentoo about 4 > years ago when I had been spending lots of time with gentoo on my > desktop at home. I like gentoo, however I would exercise caution if > you're deploying on "real" systems.
We have also moved from binary distros to Gentoo a few years ago. Basically it was a choice between linux (gentoo) and *BSD. [...] > The less updates, the > less surprises and the less chance you'll somehow accidently break > someone's site doing a simple update late some night. Gentoo is still a > fairly moving target in this respect. Agree with the moving target bit. > I think the secret is that if you run with gentoo you have to be > prepared to upgrade EVERYTHING fairly often, and not bit by bit if > you're uncomfortable with something it might be upgrading. I find that there are really two relatively pain-free upgrade policies for a production system. Either upgrade fairly often or "forklift upgrade" i.e. remove the old server and intall the new one. > And yes, I do plan to just bit the bullet and backup, upgrade everything > and then deal with any upgrade "pains" as they come. Just not sure > quite when :) Good luck :) -- Eray -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
