I tried Gentoo Linux about a year ago. I found it lovely till during a security update of perl it terminated portage and made it really hard to resurrect it, I reanimated it several times, but after mass suicde of perl, python and portage I decided to wait till 1.4 was out.
Now 1.4 is out and I would like to know if anyone has to tell some success story about uptime, stability etc... It would be great to hear from many Gentoo users: "I've an uptime of 6 months on my 3 boxes and I never had major problems with my systems" or similar stories. Recently I had a quite annoying experience with my "beloved" usual distro when I decided it was time to update some packages and I noticed how easily you can get into a dependency nightmare if you just skip one distro version. So I remembered how Gentoo was promising one year ago... I know it is hard to have stability and bleeding edge packages at the same time... but FreeBSD seems definitively a good example to follow. gentoo-server mailing list has no traffic.... is this a good or a bad sign? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
