From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4Q3o-0005KS-RV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:30:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7ELTB6m010694; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:29:11 GMT Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk (heisenberg.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7ELO0Nu011551 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:24:00 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E4Pxv-0006Gl-6e for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:24:23 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01651405F61 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:24:21 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:24:22 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? Message-ID: <20050814222422.0e900f29@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> References: <1123371608.32004.3.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Sun__14_Aug_2005_22_24_22_+0100_mpI8IeQkY=_P77_h"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 782d738e-3eb4-4e64-8b02-c4de14752e44 X-Archives-Hash: cd4c495784f2d03137fdb36af74a421f --Signature_Sun__14_Aug_2005_22_24_22_+0100_mpI8IeQkY=_P77_h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:42:19 -0400, Paul Hoy wrote: > I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good =20 > job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, =20 > such as Fedora, in terms of when it releases updates, etc. Gentoo has rolling updates, so it is always up to date. If you want to run the latest of everything you will need to run a ~arch system. There are no releases for Gentoo beyond the installation live CDs. Once installed, provided you keep up to date, there is no difference between a system installed three years ago and one installed yesterday. --=20 Neil Bothwick Windows Error #09: Game Over. Exiting Windows. --Signature_Sun__14_Aug_2005_22_24_22_+0100_mpI8IeQkY=_P77_h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC/7aGum4al0N1GQMRAsEjAJ9OO7A0+Eya4ZKqlzcm4IjM3OPtSwCeI8NK +aiaJSFy576ZkwBn39k3n8U= =21Cx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sun__14_Aug_2005_22_24_22_+0100_mpI8IeQkY=_P77_h-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list