From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRuyx-0001PS-UO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:56:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E398DE0462; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA68E0462 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4A664297 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:56:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.31 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.31 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.289, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qm9zTeT83nQG for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:56:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9631C641EB for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:56:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LRuyg-0008G8-NL for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:56:10 +0000 Received: from athedsl-294086.home.otenet.gr ([85.73.196.100]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:56:10 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-294086.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:56:10 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo mail server Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:56:13 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <1233088701.24106.612.camel@brown.esteem.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-294086.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090101) In-Reply-To: <1233088701.24106.612.camel@brown.esteem.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 16c75d2e-57fb-471c-bb33-79b147982090 X-Archives-Hash: f65fdc19a4c55ae1b75bdec0728d9500 Tom Brown wrote: > What about major upgrades? If I keep the system updated regularly, is a > major upgrade necessary? Gentoo doesn't have major upgrades so you should be fine. But as you can imagine, you need to give a Gentoo system more love than a Debian one (which is pretty much "set it and forget it") due to it's "rolling release" nature. But since you have Gentoo on your desktop, I'm sure you know your ways about updating and carefully reading emerge logs ;)