On 22 March 2012 15:19, aaron mcewan <[email protected]> wrote: > i use gentoo, for a while i was spending a lot of time setting it > up,tweaking it, updating it, etc etc now ive mostly got crude bash > scripts handling most of the updating > leaving me with very little admin overhead > > from memory i don't think ive done much more than config file updates > for my "home server" in the last few months > > ...admittedly my desktop can get a little messed up, mostly due to the > "live" versions of way to much stuff im running but even then i don't > spend much more than an hour a week sorting it out > > my desktop runs gentoo unstable (with a side of <15 "live" builds,and a > substantial collection of unmasked stuff ) >
I had a laptops video card completely crap itself ( soldiered on motherboard, can't even initialise the drivers, even CGA is broken, can't access bios any more , attached LVDS display and both external VGA display ports are screwed ) so it runs as my gentoo test box these days, running unstable with buttloads of unstable things ( the cpu fan gave up too and started making bad bad noises, .... dell , ripped that out entirely and its on its side now being cooled by a desk fan! ) , and my personal "Desktop" lap is running stable with selected ~ stuff. I have to say though, people who complain about gentoo stable being hard to maintain must be on some pretty serious drugs. Its actually somewhat /boring/ how little I have to update it. And thats *with* the testing box running a nightly rsync so I can rsync my 'work' machine real quick \o/ Gentoo has really come a long way since my first install in 2004 ... =p -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
