On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:30:57 -0600 The Wandering Dru <dru at druswanderings.net> wrote: > I'll prolly regret this later, but I'll bite. ;-) Gentoo has always > been "as stable as you want to make it". I would have had some > gripes about the distro a year or two ago but I must say, after > using it for a couple of months again, they've come a long way in > the last year. They actually maintain a "stable branch" now. I > hated recompiling X every other day. Would I use it on a server? > Not on your life (I've got better things for my servers to do than > compile software) but it's a pretty sweet desktop system. > > emerge sync && emerge -u world > > Don't get me wrong, I don't elevate Gentoo above other distros and I > > rarely recommend it to others(I reserve that honor for Libranet). I > > just think it's got it's place just like the other several hundred > distros out there. The one thing Gentoo did for me was to force me > to understand how my system works. The only other distro that did > more for me in that respect was LFS. > Hmm, very interesting... Because Slackware has been around for a lot longer than Gentoo AND it's safe to use as servers... ;) -- Shawn "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear." -Mark Twain Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list