Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:17:53 -0600 > Mike Diehl <mdi...@diehlnet.com> wrote: > > >> Has Gentoo become such a moving target that it's no longer suitable for >> normal, every day, usage? >> > > If you're prepared to update you system at least once a week and > have up-to-date knowledge of all the installed stuff, so you can at > least make a decision whether you need some functionality or not... > Then yep, I'd suggest gentoo. > > If you don't care about either then I don't understand why you started > using it in first place - red hat or debian-based distro would've been > much easier and simplier. > >
I don't know if this is still the case or not but Mandrake updates seemed like a reinstall on top of itself to me. Sort of like when you reinstall windoze. It doesn't delete anything, user wise anyway, but just puts all the new stuff in there. You don't get the latest updates with Mandrake like Gentoo does but that doesn't appear to be to important to you since you don't update very often anyway. I suspect some other distro may better suite your needs. I been using Gentoo for years and update at least weekly and I rarely have trouble. However, if you let the updates pile up, you can have issues that are difficult to deal with. Overall, I agree with Mike here. Update regularly or use some other distro as he mentioned. Dale :-) :-)
