On Saturday 27 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Norberto Bensa wrote:
> > Why? Does Gentoo forget how to do something? Why can't you just "set and > > forget" your Gentoo boxes? > > Gentoo is difficult to install. Well, it's not really difficult - but it takes awfully longer than running a binary distro install. > Also, if it's left un-updated for > longer periods of time, it tends to break on the next update. Yep, that's the case sometimes even if you update regularly. > I guess > that's the downside of being versionless. Debian on the other hand, due > to it being versioned, doesn't have that problem. Hmm ... so then, how would you upgrade from one version of Debian to another? I tried to do something like that with Ubuntu and the darn thing never booted again! Had to wipe the drive clean and reinstall. > >> Another reason I > >> didn't put Gentoo on the server is because everyone would start spamming > >> the forums about lag when I emerge -u world while they're getting frags > >> in Counter-Strike :P > > > > set PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 in /etc/make.conf > > I'll just hay "ah, ah, ah" at that one :P OK, I'll also say that it > doesn't work. Everything lags even with 19. Is that measurable? -- Regards, Mick
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