Andreas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:08:35 +0200:
> Unstable can be ... well, too unstable at times . I'm running unstable amd64 > and been forced to live with all its quirks. That can be just as anoying as > rewarding helping out solving bugs etc. I don't see it as... annoying; I see it as... challenging! =8^) Seriously, computing is my hobby, and as such, it needs to remain a bit challenging from time to time, or it would cease to be of interest. I can't well make a hobby out of my microwave or freezer, as they are almost plug and forget (well, until they die altogether and I get new ones). Watching paint dry or a plant grow can be /boring/ as a hobby! With computing, in particular, with Gentoo ~amd64 plus some not-yet-unmasked packages like xorg, kde, gcc, etc, as they come along to spice things up, I get enough challenge to keep things interesting! =8^) Of course, if I were running Gentoo on a mission critical server or something, as part of my livelihood, I'd probably run stable, but it's a hobby, and for that hobby, stable is simply too frustratingly old, and likely too frustratingly stable. <g> (I've never actually run Gentoo stable so I don't know how stable it might or might not be, but I /do/ know KDE 3.4.x when KDE 3.5.3 is out, as the spread to stable happened to be at one point, is just the sort of reason I left Mandrake Cooker for AMD64 and switched to Gentoo ~amd64!) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
