the more i see these discussions about distros and window managers and mta's and and email clients and almost anything else, the more i know that the real point is that we have choice, and thats a good thing!
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:52:48 +1200 "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK you are probably correct but the point I was trying to make was that with > a couple of commands... > > emerge rsync && emerge -up world > then > emerge -uU world > > .....I have... > KDE 3.3 > Gimp 2.0.4 > K3b 0.11.12-r1 > Mozilla 1.7.2-r1 > Gift 0.11.6-r1 > Apollon 0.9.3 > Samba 3.0.7 > Apache 2.0.50-r1 > Cups 1.1.20 > Gnucash 1.8.9 > Etc. etc. > > It is very simple for a user (not a geek or an expert) to have very up to > date packages. > I will stop now because I do not want to run down other distros - I just > like the ease of use with Gentoo - for me. > > Regards, Robert > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Gregan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:42 a.m. > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: Right way to compile Debian packages? > > At 2004-09-14T10:28:48+1200, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > > I challenge any non Gentoo user to match the stable versions of > > packages we Gentoo users have. > > It's a pointless challenge. The version numbers of a package are fairly > meaningless when comparing across distributions. Why? Because some > distributions backport large amounts of functionality from the latest > version of a package to make the features available in what would > otherwise appears to be an older version of the package. > > For example, and just looking at kernel features: > - SuSE has had I/O write barriers in their kernel since 2.4.x, but this > feature has only become available in the kernel.org kernel since > 2.6.9-rc1. > - Red Hat had NPTL and KAIO before any other distribution, and often has > fixes in their glibc that aren't even available in glibc CVS yet. > > I could list examples like this ad infinitum. > > Cheers, > -mjg > -- > Matthew Gregan |/ > /| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
