On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Tod Hansmann <[email protected]> wrote: > - Last but not least, I'm concerned about upgrade ability. I'm going to > put this in my colo, and I do NOT want to break things with an OS > update. I'd rather enjoy uptime of about 3 years before having to go > back to the colo. I guess what I'm saying here is I will never use > Gentoo in this case. >
I don't get your beef with gentoo. It's no worse than other distros regarding updates and breakage. 1) You have complete control over what you choose to update. 2) I assume you test updates on another machine before deploying them to a production server regardless of distro.... don't you? (If not, you lose admin points.) Furthermore, it fully supports binary packages just like all the other distros. I don't believe there exists any distro that holds your hand so much that you can just run their update tool and trust that nothing will go wrong. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
