Linux Updates … Updated
The Linux Updates mirror (on campus only) now has full support for Fedora Core 6 (Core, Updates, and Extras). It updates twice a day, just like Fedora Core 5 and Gentoo, so check out the configuration page to see the scheduled times, configuration instructions (they are the same as Fedora Core 5), alternative installation methods, status notices, and statistics.
That’s way cool that there’s enough linux support on campus to have something like that.
Although it pained me, I ended up ditching Gentoo a few months ago in favor of Kubuntu. “Back in the day”, Gentoo was rock solid even when running “unstable” with reiser4 and a bunch of hard-masked packages. Not any more. Even running “stable”, every time I’d update, something would break, and I don’t have the time to fix it like I used to. I heard a lot of developers quit due to internal conflicts, but I don’t know. What I do know is that QA seems to have taken a back seat to doing stuff like hacking portage to allow MySQL 4 and 5 to co-exist on the same system and changing the way apache and PHP were installed about every other week. </rant>
Hope things are going well… it looks like you got your employment/continuing education problem straightened out. Have a great Thanksgiving.
Ya, I’ve moved entirely away from Gentoo myself, for the exact same reasons. I loved it, but it got to be too much work dealing with all the internal politics and changes … it just got to be too much.
I was spending more time at work dealing with it (on my work machine) than I wanted, so I installed Fedore Core (5 at the time, 6 now). Works like a charm.