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Frank Peters wrote: |
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> Now I am not actually voicing a complaint. Gentoo, IMO, is still |
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> the best distribution for Linux. I am just wondering why there |
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> is such a great lag before a package version is deemed stable -- or |
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> even unstable. In my experience with maintaining my own Linux system, |
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> I never had any great issues with always installing the latest "bleeding" |
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> edge software. |
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> Frank Peters |
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> |
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I feel it's worthwhile to mention that in comparison to other system, |
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Gentoo really doesn't lag quite that far behind package releases. By |
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comparison, when dealing with an Ubuntu box, unless one is using the |
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dev-packages, which incidentally are still behind the unstable releases |
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for Gentoo, the latest available wine is 1.0.1-r1 and the latest |
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available kernel is 2.6.27, so by that measure, we're quite far ahead. |
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