14.10 Utopic Unicorn Updates

[Pete Smout]

On Aug 9, 2014 2:16 PM, "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8 August 2014 20:05, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There's more churn in unstable but it's also a "victim" of the freeze
> > because developers can't upload packages to unstable unless they're
> > destined for testing and they're fixing a bug. Thta's why even Ubuntu
> > non-LTS falls behind upstream from time to time. The syncs from Debian
> > are for minor version bumps.
>
> Conceded.
>
> > The last freeze lasted 9 or 10 months. I don't know anyone who's
> > running sid or sidux but I had a colleague who use to run sidux and
> > his system was trashed after one of the Debian releases and unstable
> > received a flood of new packages.
>
> Ouch!
>
> > Gentoo's a rolling release but you have to get used to the
> > install-time compilation delays (compared to a binary distro) and not
> > mess around too much with your USE flags unless you know what you're
> > doing.
>
> I never advocate Gentoo myself -- life is far too short; if you're
> really worried about maximising system performance that badly, then
> you shouldn't be running Linux, and arguably not Unix at all.
>
> How about Sabayon, then? That seems to paper over the more egregious
> of Gentoo's cracks?
>

Sabayon is a lovely system just couldn't get on with the Gnome desktop that
I installed with it!
The support forum peeps are really friendly and helpful too (not quite as
good as here but not snobbish as some I have used!)

Pete S

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