From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46943138C52 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 01:58:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3D73E0BB7; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 01:58:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qk0-f169.google.com (mail-qk0-f169.google.com [209.85.220.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 92711E0B5B for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 01:58:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qkx62 with SMTP id 62so105340391qkx.0 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 18:58:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PdLTON2ajNiswge8B6Xnm2UllPrOOPlYfDVyr/zLM04=; b=fBc4qogTGrXz3lp/Bd2UQSeCzBigr81FyS5qTpLb/R12aDVhVjOOxYrdUEYMWInEBs T2plRRxnTN8EnoIzLq4AN6nCsTjiNnuj8FbS7ETbrlnpCP/GKaKwDA2mwd1i+v1puXll 1D5dUozt3I+Ja+KeSoB0P1Zj7f9UKT1a4fxzBvr50uOLru36BWLSaveZX4XJXlucJg1w qboPqDuIK7aY2Tq7edkPy3X8CX0jZ9+mfQS0YDW4HFd3atgXe4A3+Ej39IfQHqiFE4ie r23rli1YxRcE4hK/hhDVjSmN06mghW2yqo3g7IIJs5Dzbq9vUYj01IPALx6mSOqf4NrN 6FUg== X-Received: by 10.140.83.116 with SMTP id i107mr2259613qgd.97.1428803891812; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 18:58:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-128-175.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.128.175]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id u95sm2635059qge.35.2015.04.11.18.58.10 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 11 Apr 2015 18:58:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5529D131.7000405@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 20:58:09 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed! References: <55292E11.9040202@verizon.net> <201504112204.26649.dilfridge@gentoo.org> <5529BF6C.7090909@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <5529BF6C.7090909@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 18e57bb5-a870-40f2-bd1b-23b1d1d1daac X-Archives-Hash: b577e6e685d9705d8d8e217fdbb31af2 Alan Grimes wrote: > Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > >> If you kept your system updated all the time, you shouldnt have any >> problems. > Byte me. > > Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of jun= k > running. =3D( I'm the user here, I am not going to take any lip from yo= u > about how I run my system. =3D| I put a great deal more work into > maintaining my system than most of the rest of you. > > Gentoo is not like binary systems. Most binary systems, you can upgrade even after years of not doing any upgrading. Gentoo doesn't like that.=20 Officially Gentoo is supposed to have a upgrade max of one year. Thing is, that depends on what changes has taken place in that year. There are times when some major changes happen and even if it hasn't been 6 months since a upgrade/update, a person is just as well off to reinstall and keep their sanity. That could vary depending on how complex some things may be to set up again.=20 So, if you plan to use Gentoo, keeping a system fairly up to date is the best way to avoid having to deal with some problems that leave you kicking and screaming for mercy. I've found that once a week does fairly well. Some on this list have posted they go a month.=20 Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)=20