On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 18:47 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 08:06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: So O.K.': > > 060205 Franta wrote: > > > Maybe we should start a new thread/threads to stop the flame. > > > I hope somebody would be interested in this. > > > > You've probably put everyone else off: it was not the way to get help. > > Gentoo is for people who want to manage their own machine(s). > > Many people don't want to do that & everyone here would encourage them > > to choose another distro: eg I use Mandrake 2005 in my back-up box. > > I can't agree more with this sentiment. For the times when I'm not wants > to configure things as much as gentoo (say, my x86 chroot) I use deb or a > deb variant. > > Also, as others have said, there's nothing really wrong with letting your > gentoo install go stale. Once you have a system set up and tweaked to > where you want it, just don't touch it. I'll probably do just that for my > media center box.
Absolutely (in case you wanted further confirmation!) I once set up a gentoo firewall / inet access / router / dhcp box for a non-profit org a few years ago. I went back in recently, and there it is in the corner, still running on the old 486. I checked the uptime and syslogs - it runs until there is a blackout, and then runs again faithfully!! I think it must still have linux-2.4.x on there... -- Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog. -- [email protected] mailing list
