[GRLUG] FOR SALE - 16-Cores, 128GB RAM, 3.2TB, RAID, 2xFX4500 Graphics

[john-thomas richards]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:37:50PM -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:14:24PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> > I didn't arrange for any meaningful benchmarks.  I don't really think
> > there is such a thing, either.
> > 
> > My two big reasons for using Gentoo are the incremental upgrade
> > philosophy (no apt-get dist-upgrade every six months, no reinstall of
> > a new annual release), and that I often need to be on the bleeding
> > edge versions when I do thinks like media processing.
> 
> The idea of an apt-get dist-upgrade (or aptitude full-upgrade) *is* an
> incremental upgrade.  Since you cited a dist-upgrade as opposed to just
> an upgrade I assume you were not running stable (since stable doesn't
> allow upgrades that could remove apps, hence no need for a
> dist-upgrade).  When I ran Testing (and will again soon) I ran
> dist-upgrade on a frequent basis (three or four times a week), thus
> getting the incremental upgrade.  One could use the same argument
> against Gentoo that you are using against Debian, ie, I prefer Debian's
> incremental upgrades over rebuilding Gentoo every six months.

Unless, of course, you mean Ubuntu...  :-)

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