Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

[kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>]

Paul Hoy wrote:
> My original email was 23/24 packages for x86. However, after reading
> your email, I compared the first 10 kde updates with ~x86 releases. It
> came out that Fedora was ahead 50 percent of the time or both distros
> shared the same release versions. In case I'm doing something
> incorrectly, you can also view the updates at
> http://fedoraproject.org/infofeed/
> 
> Of course, this new comparison is between testing releases and so-called
> stable Fedora releases. There is a Fedora extras/unstable list (Fedora
> Core 4 Testing Updates) for that, but I don't receive that one. It also
> should be noted that the updates I listed happen to be mostly for Fedora
> 3, not Fedora 4. I compared some Fedora 4 releases the other day and
> shared them with this list and Fedora was ahead 90 percent of the time
> (out of about 10 recent release comparisons).
> 
> Finally, after doing a ~x86 compare, I noticed that fedora-announce-list
> is slow to announce updates as most of the actual updates took place
> around the beginning of August by Redhat people. Not sure why that is.

	I'd be curious as to how long this remains the case. In the past  I've 
seen binary distros leap ahead and they remain fairly up to date for a 
period of time after their initial release. As time progresses they fall 
behind and are unable to add software that requires newer core libs than 
the ones they shipped with or releases that are too different from the 
previous release. They continue falling further behind until the next 
major release and the cycle starts again.

	Assuming the above is correct outside my own experiences I'd trade 
short bursts of current packages with a 6-8 month reinstall for long 
term "just shy of bleeding edge." Afterall the mail server that sent 
this started its life as Gentoo v1.2 three years ago.

kashani
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