On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:46:41AM +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > 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...
My personal server has only been rebooted for hardware or kernel updates had about 3months uptime until a few days ago when I moved the root partition from an slow and old scsi drive to a less old and less slow IDE drive. Other than that it's been running 24/7 except for the very occasional power outage or kernel update. 0 problems otherwise. In case you're wondering if I'm actually using the box for anything.... :) it runs: - apache with a weblog, php and cgi scripting - secondary mx via postfix - squid cache for my home network, - a RAID5 array of disks used on a fileserver - fileserver exported to the network via both samba and NFS My desktop machine runs a mixture of x86 and ~x86 and hasn't had any deadly problems, though it's uptime is far less due to me rebooting to muck around with 2.6 kernels. Don't forget, gentoo is not like other distros that require you to update each time they release a major update. Pretty much no matter what version you are running you can simply do an "emerge sync ; emerge world -up" and you'll be running the latest and greatest. The only caveat to that is (I think) that gentoo 1.0/1.2 were running older versions of gcc, so you would be updated to 1.4 but be compiling them with gcc 3.1, not 3.2 (or 3.2 not 3.3, or something like that). alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
