I couldn't have said it better :) Don't get me wrong, I love Gentoo and I have been using it on my desktop for a while now. But, Aaron has a point here. Lets say an update for Gentoo comes out but is bugged somehow, you go ahead and update the system and in the process break something really bad. Sound like that would never happen? Actually with Gentoo it happens all the time. Things aren't as QA tested as they would be with say Redhat or Mandrake or SuSE. Why? Because it's a hackers playground. Redhat/Mandrake/SuSE/etc have a corporate image to worry about. They need to test there updates thoroughly, etc before releasing them because one bad update could ruin their image and if their image goes then so does their business.
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 02 December 2002 10:00, Kevin Anderson wrote: >> Why? I don't want a GUI on my server, so why should the time it takes >> to get it running matter? > > because time == money? because i want to be able to have updates > installed in seconds not minutes or hours? because i want the resulting > binaries to be verified, tested, integrated and perhaps even certified? > because if the system is already compiled, i know i can rely on the > fact that it will indeed compile properly (since that part is already > done)? because this added blessing of compiling from source will end up > meaning practically nothing for me on my systems (a few % increase in > speed really won't make or break me)? > > - -- > Aaron J. Seigo > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" > - Albert Einstein > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE965do1rcusafx20MRAtDjAJ0TL3OZa388QbBAsqcw9x94weT8GwCfd5k8 > +KlYm2cSkHZa+CGQZl1UfM0= > =AtSf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
