[wellylug] Sarge approaching release

[Tim Thomson]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:15:37PM +1200, David Antliff wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ian Sterling wrote:
> > Sid's got a lot of broken packages... (but I guess that's why
> > they call it unstable, no?)
> 
> Actually, it's called 'unstable' because it changes a lot, not because it
> contains packages that crash. You could consider Gentoo to be similarly
> 'unstable' but that doesn't bother me for what I do.

experimental is what you want for packages that crash. ;)
Last I looked had a bunch of packages compiled from CVS snapshots, plus
new games, etc. 
I find unstable pretty stable. Sometimes there is a major library change
that disrupts things, but they pass by pretty fast, and you can work
around them usually.

> > Don't get me wrong, Debian was my first true love of linux distros,
> > but Gentoo's stolen my heart.  I still used deb on my servers because
> > it IS so stable, but Gentoo is much more usable as a desktop distro.
> 
> Exactly what I do - Gentoo for workstations, Debian on my file/mail/web
> server(s). I also ran Debian on a 'multimedia' PC for a while, but quickly
> found Gentoo far more suitable.

I still find debian to be nicer for just getting stuff done. If someone
finds a cool new program, apt-get install will usually do it well. My
gentoo using buddies are often left fiddling with their emerge builds
after if fails to compile. Plus you don't have to wait for a day to
build everything. ;)

Cheers,

Tim.