Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:21:54
Message-Id: 200612200514.48935.bss03@volumehost.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? by Uwe Thiem
1 On Wednesday 20 December 2006 04:46, Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na> wrote
2 about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?':
3 > On 20 December 2006 11:43, Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 > > Or do what Ubuntu did and default all installs to use their time
5 > > server, they can get a good estimate of the number of users from the
6 > > time server logs.
7 >
8 > Well, wouldn't work at least here. All my installs at customers point to
9 > a nearby timeserver. ;-)
10
11 Same here; I configure my ntp clients to know the servers on the LAN, and
12 all the ones along the traceroute to ntp.<adslprovider>.net and
13 ntp.<cableprovider>.net as well as one from the US pool.
14
15 --
16 "If there's one thing we've established over the years,
17 it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
18 clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
19 -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh