[ILUG] What the difference...

[Lloyd Hardy]

>Kevin Philp wrote:
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>>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.
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>>
I used this distro once, where it was fairly easy to install, wasn't 
difficult to use but ended up taking loads of your time. It was a doddle 
to upgrade, but whenever you did, you had to throw out all of your 
software. It continually updated patches but every time it did, it need 
a new patch to fix all the problems the latest patch caused. It doesn't 
have releases like other distro's either and because of the problems 
with patches they released a pack with all of them in and then when you 
install that it generally doesn't boot ever again. _And_ I couldn't find 
the source....oh wait a minute...

:p

Lloyd