On Monday 05 October 2009 18:21:56 john lewis wrote: > However I would like to say that one of the reasons I use Debian is > that I haven't needed to reinstall* it since I put that first system > on a PC ten years or so ago. I have just moved seamlessly from one year > to the next with daily apt-get update (nowadays the update bit is taken > care by cron-apt) and apt-get upgrade (nowadays aptitude safe-upgrade)
Gentoo is similar, except that the 'apt-get upgrade' bit is seen as an unnecessary step, and they've managed to pretty much remove the concept of versioning above the level of individual packages. > For example there are problems with gnome-desktop in the testing > version of Debian I am using on my Acer Netbook and making the wrong Again, you don't have a 'testing version of Gentoo', stable/unstable labels are applied at the level of an individual package version, not the system level. All that flexibility comes at the cost of some extra complexity and a few quirks. Whether the costs outweigh the benefits or not depends on your own personal preferences. -- Be seeing you, http://www.glendale.org.uk Sam. Mail/IM (Jabber): s...@glendale.org.uk -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
