Comments on: Linux Updates … Updated http://kc5mpk.com/blog/archives/2006/11/20/linux-updates-updated/ Unintelligible nonsense Tue, 25 May 2010 15:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Q4RadioGuy http://kc5mpk.com/blog/archives/2006/11/20/linux-updates-updated/comment-page-1/#comment-2611 Q4RadioGuy Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:34:59 +0000 http://kc5mpk.com/blog/archives/2006/11/20/288/#comment-2611 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. 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.

]]> By: Chemmett http://kc5mpk.com/blog/archives/2006/11/20/linux-updates-updated/comment-page-1/#comment-2458 Chemmett Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:33:23 +0000 http://kc5mpk.com/blog/archives/2006/11/20/288/#comment-2458 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. 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.

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