[OT] Distro suggestion, was "Re: [Bug 3318] 5.04 updates"

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:59 -0500, John Dong wrote:
> Backports gets harder and harder to maintain with older releases
> because so many new features from newer versions are required to
> build. If you have any requests, we're still happy to look at them for
> you, but we have to caution that many won't work.
> 
> 
> Gentoo is no way to solve the problem -- that's just upgrade hell
> 24/7/365. Upgrading to Breezy is much less painful than administering
> Gentoo for a few weeks :). I've been fired from admin positions thanks
> to my Gentoo servers before :)

_I_ know that =) that why I run breezy (ran Gentoo for five years before
hoary). But maybe you have to learn this stuff the hard way. ;-P

Regards,
John