On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:30:57 -0600
The Wandering Dru <dru at druswanderings.net> wrote:

> I'll prolly regret this later, but I'll bite. ;-) Gentoo has always
> been "as stable as you want to make it".  I would have had some
> gripes about the distro a year or two ago but I must say, after
> using it for a couple of months again, they've come a long way in
> the last year.  They actually maintain a "stable branch" now.  I
> hated recompiling X every other day.  Would I use it on a server?
> Not on your life (I've got better things for my servers to do than
> compile software) but it's a pretty sweet desktop system.
> 
> emerge sync && emerge -u world
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I don't elevate Gentoo above other distros and I
> 
> rarely recommend it to others(I reserve that honor for Libranet).  I
> 
> just think it's got it's place just like the other several hundred 
> distros out there.  The one thing Gentoo did for me was to force me
> to understand how my system works.  The only other distro that did
> more for me in that respect was LFS.
> 

Hmm, very interesting...  Because Slackware has been around for a lot
longer than Gentoo AND it's safe to use as servers...   ;)


-- 
Shawn

 "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of
fear."
	-Mark Twain

  Ne Obliviscaris --  "Forget Not"

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