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Mick wrote: |
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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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That's why I do it at home :) For the servers, less work is better |
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(yes, I'm ashamed of this, but not ashamed enough to keep me from doing |
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it ;D) |
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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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On Debian, I simply changed all the string in /etc/apt/sources.list from |
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"etch" to "lenny" and ran "aptitude dist-update". I crossed my fingers. |
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I was relieved to see it just worked. I updated from Etch to Lenny in |
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10 minutes :P |
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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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On my Gentoo at home, yes. The mouse cursor skips, scrolling gets |
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skippy/laggy too. I have a dual core E6600@3.33Ghz with 4GB DDR2 RAM. |
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With all that being said, I prefer Gentoo of course. I've been through |
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Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Mandriva/Mandrake, CentOS, Fedora and |
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openSUSE on my desktop PC. I finally settled with Gentoo; it's beats |
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all of 'em. But it needs more attention to keep it healthy and clean. |
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So I don't use it for the servers. More free time for me that way :P |
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