[ale] Current Red Hat users - moving on?

[Christopher Gilbert]

I used to sync and emerge every week after reading about all the updated
packages in the weekly gentoo newsletter. But they killed that section
in favor of the new packages.gentoo.org site. The packages site now has
info on daily changes to ebuilds.  I usually sync and emerge every other
week before I go to bed and review the log when I wake-up.

Gentoo's Portage system however is no guaranty security updates have
been patched.  They were fast on the resent rsync exploit but I had a
network card who's driver needed a one line patch to fix a buffer
overflow. Gentoo decide this need to be fixed upstream with maintainer
of the driver. Debian and Red Hat both had new .deb and .rpms by the
next day.

chris-marlin

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 09:59, Grady Harris wrote:
> I've had Gentoo running on my desktop machine at home, PII~400, for two months,
> and haven't managed to mess it up yet, which is a record for me. Only took me
> three tries to get through the installation--of course, three tries, back to
> back, meant about nine days.
> 
> Once it was installed, and I had added Gnome & KDE bases & gone through a couple
> of syncing cycles, most of the tools I would need for any compilation were
> there, so emerging new programs took less time. Open Office, though, took about
> 36 hours to compile.
> 
> Grady Harris
> >>>
> Message: 9
> Date: 08 Dec 2003 22:19:45 -0500
> From: Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: RE: [ale] Current Red Hat users - moving on?
> 
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 10:37, Matthew Brown wrote:
> > Anoyone going with gentoo?  I am trying it out on a new web server.  It
> > looks pretty sharp.
> >
> <snip>
> 
> I'll give a second to Gentoo...
> It's been over a year since I've started using it.  Haven't looked
> back.  Portage is a wonderful application delivery system, even if it's
> slow.  Slow due to fact it compiles most of the programs you install.
> My system runs noticeably faster with a Gentoo install than with a
> RedHat.
> I have it installed on my desktop, laptop, and two servers.
> 
> Calvin...
> >>>
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