Kevin Philp wrote:
> Without fanning the flames of distro wars too much.
>> I have used Gentoo for some time at home. Its a long process to install (allow
> a whole weekend), its not difficult and doesn't take much of your time its
> just the compilation of KDE is long but when its installed its a doddle to
> upgrade. Gentoo does not have releases like other distro's, it just
> continually upgrades packages in portage. With other distro's you will get to
> a point where you need to upgrade to a newer release. So the upgrade cycle is
> continuous rather than security/bug fixes followed by occasional big
> upgrades.
You'll find that Debian testing or unstable have the same feature where
you can just roll with it. And Debian also has a release of stable every
one in a (long) while to cater for servers that want stable software and
security updates.
Baruch
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