14.10 Utopic Unicorn Updates

[Liam Proven]

On 8 August 2014 20:05, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's more churn in unstable but it's also a "victim" of the freeze
> because developers can't upload packages to unstable unless they're
> destined for testing and they're fixing a bug. Thta's why even Ubuntu
> non-LTS falls behind upstream from time to time. The syncs from Debian
> are for minor version bumps.

Conceded.

> The last freeze lasted 9 or 10 months. I don't know anyone who's
> running sid or sidux but I had a colleague who use to run sidux and
> his system was trashed after one of the Debian releases and unstable
> received a flood of new packages.

Ouch!

> Gentoo's a rolling release but you have to get used to the
> install-time compilation delays (compared to a binary distro) and not
> mess around too much with your USE flags unless you know what you're
> doing.

I never advocate Gentoo myself -- life is far too short; if you're
really worried about maximising system performance that badly, then
you shouldn't be running Linux, and arguably not Unix at all.

How about Sabayon, then? That seems to paper over the more egregious
of Gentoo's cracks?


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