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

[john-thomas richards]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 05:18:27PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> 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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john-thomas
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