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

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:04 PM, john-thomas richards<jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> 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...  :-)

Sorry about that...I'm a bit high strung this week.


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