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On Saturday 27 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Norberto Bensa wrote: |
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> > Why? Does Gentoo forget how to do something? Why can't you just "set and |
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> > forget" your Gentoo boxes? |
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> Gentoo is difficult to install. |
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Well, it's not really difficult - but it takes awfully longer than running a |
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binary distro install. |
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> Also, if it's left un-updated for |
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> longer periods of time, it tends to break on the next update. |
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Yep, that's the case sometimes even if you update regularly. |
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> I guess |
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> that's the downside of being versionless. Debian on the other hand, due |
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> to it being versioned, doesn't have that problem. |
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Hmm ... so then, how would you upgrade from one version of Debian to another? |
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I tried to do something like that with Ubuntu and the darn thing never booted |
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again! Had to wipe the drive clean and reinstall. |
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> >> Another reason I |
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> >> didn't put Gentoo on the server is because everyone would start spamming |
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> >> the forums about lag when I emerge -u world while they're getting frags |
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> >> in Counter-Strike :P |
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> > set PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 in /etc/make.conf |
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> I'll just hay "ah, ah, ah" at that one :P OK, I'll also say that it |
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> doesn't work. Everything lags even with 19. |
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Is that measurable? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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