[mdlug] Chaning distros

[David Relson]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:54:15 -0500 (EST)
Carl T. Miller wrote:

> Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> > My favorite distro is Red Hat. Assuming you don't want to pay for
> > it, my next choice is Gentoo.  The initial setup can be a pain, but
> > I love the flexibility the portage system gives you.
> 
> Wow.  I was surprised when you wrote Gentoo.  I expected CentOS,
> which is the free clone of Red Hat Enterprise.  Have you tried
> CentOS?  I'd like to hear your impressions since you're very
> familiar with Red Hat.
> 
> c

Hi Carl,

Gentoo has been my primary distro for several months.  It's fun to be
able to be able to get updates every day.  However I've found a lot of
tweaking needed in terms of package masks (whether or not to allow
experimental package versions and which ones to allow) and related
things.

I may have, finally, gotten bored with daily updates as early this week
I added a cron job to update the portage tree (package list) once a
week.  The intent is to update the system weekly, rather than daily.
In a few days (weeks?  months?) I'll find out if updating less often is
more satisfying.

Ciao,

David