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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a |
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> little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. |
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> A few months ago, an update made the machine headless -- well, it could no |
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> longer bring up X but I could use the console-mode for admin, and log in via |
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> SSH from my laptop and run GUI programs. I was busy at the time, first |
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> deciding and then implementing my retirement, so I let it go. |
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Sorry to see you go! |
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> The real headache is all the stuff I'm going to have to port. |
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> 1) Apache and dynamic (Python CGI) web site. |
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> 2) Postfix |
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> 3) About a dozen accounts that just do wget(1) data gathering triggered by |
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> the cron daemon. |
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> 4) DNS (I run my own domain on a commercial DSL account) |
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> 5) NTP client and server |
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> 6) Whatever else I forgot I set up over the years. |
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Maybe you can run them from your previous gentoo installation inside a |
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chroot until you can reproduce them in Ubuntu proper. |
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> My original reason for using Gentoo is that this machine was pretty exotic |
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> when I bought it, and I wanted to be able to tweak the compiler to get the |
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> most out of it. I can still do that for specific applications I'm working |
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> on, but otherwise it's really a non-issue now. I have gotten pretty tired |
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> of updates that take over 48 hours to compile, and the occasional mess-up |
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> that once or twice led me to rebuild with empty-tree and took a week or so. |
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I have a laptop from 2004 and am increasingly irritated by the slow |
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build times. Keeping Gentoo up-to-date with it takes a very long time, |
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especially since I use it so infrequently. Having several days worth |
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of compiling just to bring it up to date is tiring, when it causes the |
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fan to blow at full speed (and full decibels) and heat which |
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approaches that of the Sun. If I ever get around to it, I'm going to |
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give Sabayon a try. Hopefully then I'll have the familiar Gentoo setup |
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but without the building from source. |
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> So I guess I shouldn't complain (and I'm not). I'm just not in the target |
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> market for Gentoo any more. It was fun, though. |
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After using Gentoo for so many years, I find the maintenance in Ubuntu |
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to be rather anti-climactic. "256 packages to update? Oh no! Oh, look, |
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it's done already." :) |
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Good luck and congratulations on your retirement. |
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Paul |