On 2015-11-19 21:11, Duncan wrote:
Yeah, that's one of the reasons that I switched to Gentoo. For those who may be interested, the full list is: 1. Way easier to stay up to date (from an administrative perspective, not necessarily a computational time perspective (although emerge does compute dependencies noticeably faster than dnf, yum, and zypper most of the time)). 2. Exponentially more configurable than almost any other full distro (this is the big one that really made me choose Gentoo initially). 3. I build my own kernels, and Gentoo has direct integration for this (in fact, they only distribute the sources for the kernel, you build it locally regardless (which is really not hard even if you don't use genkernel to automate it)). 4. Better response to bug reports (as compared to Ubuntu, although this is on average, and not always consistent). 5. Proper support for a wide variety of desktop environments in the main project (In almost every other distro, any desktop other than the default is usually an after thought, or maintained through a separate project; and, Xfce (which is what I use) is not very popular as a default environment for some reason).Austin S Hemmelgarn posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2015 07:28:34 -0500 as excerpted:(having all updates installed on Ubuntu doesn't really count in this case, they're pretty bad sometimes about not properly tracking upstream development[)]No kidding. I'm involved with an upstream that had a security patch and version-bump a number of years ago. An Ubuntu bug was filed... and it sat in the bug queue IIRC untouched until it was obsoleted by newer releases, where the new version /was/ included. At least Fedora (which I remember a poster confirming the update on) and Gentoo (which I run, personally filed a bug with, and saw the security bump) made the version bump available as an update. Apparently, as it wasn't a headline component (one would /hope/ they at least get security updates out for /them/, and they evidently do for at least some as they do publish security updates, but at this point I'd wonder how consistently they do for others), Ubuntu simply didn't care. Made /me/ glad I wasn't on Ubuntu, that's for sure!
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