On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:55:23AM -0500, Tim Wilson wrote: >On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:29:23AM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote: > >I agree that you can spend plenty of time tweaking a Gentoo system. My >experience, however, has been that once the system is installed it's >been pretty tinker-free. That's probably due in part to the fact that I >run a fairly lean system. They didn't have the upgrade functions to portage when I used it. Well, it was there, but it was very unstable and extremely scary (generally compiling GCC and glibc is sticky work anyway) > >I've done one major system update (equivalent to Debian's 'apt-get >dist-upgrade') and it went very well. I started it when I left work, and >it was done in the morning. You won't have that experience on a P133 w/ >32 MB RAM, however. :-) One of my biggest issues with it for production use was just that, I can't afford to take two days installing a box and I also can't afford to load down a production server for a whole day for major upgrades either. Thier lack of prepackaged binary installs was a tough thing for me too. -- Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ System Administrator | http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. | "If you love something set it free, if it doesn't come back to you hunt it down and set it on fire" -- George Carlin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020510/885425c0/attachment.pgp