I'm new to Gentoo. I come from FreeBSD. I have to run Gentoo in
this particular case because I need an asterisk box and asterisk runs
better on Linux than FreeBSD.
Sad. OSS software should be platform independent (expecially if both
OSes are Unix-like).
That being said, I must say that I am very impressed with Gentoo. It's
far superior to RedHat, which was the last Linux experience I had.
<flame>Not surprising, being RH maybe the worst Linux experience
possible. Linux fortunately is not RH, and is much better.</flame>
2) pkg_version -- summarize installed versions of packages. Outputs
what newer ports are available to what versions are actually
installed. I've looked through the emerge and ebuild docs, but I can't
find anything that operates the same way.
emerge --deep --update --pretend --verbose world
If you want info about packages etc. I advice you to emerge gentoolkit
(a collection of useful tools for Portage) and eix (a FAST tool for
querying the Portage database).
3) portaudit(1) -- system to check installed packages for known
vulnerabilities.
If you want to be aware of security issues & updates, subscribe the
gentoo-announce mailing list. If it's something actively doing testing
on packages, well, I don't know.
m.
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