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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:33:31 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:50:46 +0700
Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> So, as you can see, binary distros can still fuck up royal time. Not
> to mention that if you have an exotic configuration, support for your
> configuration might not be built into the kernel by the distro.
>
> Somehow I believe people deploying Gentoo servers will be much more
> careful...
>
Oh, the people who deploy Gentoo are certainly that careful.
It's the junior admins who type "emerge world" and walk away that
aren't up to the task. I sadly had to ban Gentoo on production at work
for that reason, but it's still highly recommended for -dev and -stage
machines.
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com