As I remember there were occasions when emerging something from the stable tree had dependancies which required 'unstable'.
Far to often an update would result in time spent searching the gentoo forums for an answer to what had just messed up the system. An answer was normally easy to find but still time wasted. It wasn't clear which updates were security related and which weren't (though I'm sure that is a failing on my part).
Ubuntu has a notification on the desktop when I need to update. Click, Click done. It has not messed up anything as of yet. (apart from the fact that I have to manually edit my Grub settings after a kernel update because grub gets confused about my root drive. Grub did the same on gentoo though so I can't blame Ubuntu.
The fact is I do not have the spare time I used to have to tinker, and want something that more or less just works.
The next time I upgrade my hardware (x64) I may give OSX on intel a try. But that will be some time away yet.
LFS - hard work but worth it at the time. Now I just don't have the time.
Gentoo - seemed like a good idea but project seems to have lost direction. Stable is too far behind and unstable just plain don't work in too many cases. Minor package updates can break things in a major way and any complaints are met with 'what do you expect in unstable ?'
I suspect many Gentoo developers wish to return to being a niche distro.
Ubuntu - I've settled with for now. I can compile anything I need a newer version of, and updates don't tend to bork the box.
Please feel free to piont out any erors in my speling grammer
I care a lot.
We sometimes hear of so called 'scene' topsites that well connected 'pirates' have access to.
Surely the commercial newsfeeds could in fact be regarded as 'Pay as you go' topsites. How they get left alone to profit from rampant copyright theft is beyond me.
Not that I care. I download films from my own ISP's newsserver, which is one of the few left in the uk to have a decent binary newsfeed.
I'm sure the only reason they keep it going is that its cheaper for them to supply as much of their customers warez requirements as possible, on their own backbone, than it is for everyone to be seeking the stuff on the wider net.
Still find it weird that its allowed to go on though
1.
There are far more than two variations of English.
2.
Whether you like it or not you have an American accent. Some stupid people around the world will judge you, solely on that basis, the first time they hear it.
Just as you would judge people based on on that same criteria.
The fact that a lot, or indeed the majority, of your peers may be judging people in this fashion does not make it right.
Sensible people judge others on there deeds and contributions not their voices.
Luckily in the UK the days are long gone when some folk (quaint Northern English word, I must be backward) unfortunately felt the need 'lose' an accent to get on in life.
It really doesn't matter any more. Even the Newsreaders can have accents here now.
Sounds like many of you over there still have a long way to go before you can shake off what is just one of many prejudices.
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like this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6149464.stm
What you saying ?
Debian's gonna ship with Vista instead ?
No it's not. >br>
It's called being true to your word.
As I remember there were occasions when emerging something from the stable tree had dependancies which required 'unstable'.
Far to often an update would result in time spent searching the gentoo forums for an answer to what had just messed up the system. An answer was normally easy to find but still time wasted. It wasn't clear which updates were security related and which weren't (though I'm sure that is a failing on my part).
Ubuntu has a notification on the desktop when I need to update. Click, Click done. It has not messed up anything as of yet. (apart from the fact that I have to manually edit my Grub settings after a kernel update because grub gets confused about my root drive. Grub did the same on gentoo though so I can't blame Ubuntu.
The fact is I do not have the spare time I used to have to tinker, and want something that more or less just works.
The next time I upgrade my hardware (x64) I may give OSX on intel a try. But that will be some time away yet.
LFS - hard work but worth it at the time. Now I just don't have the time.
Gentoo - seemed like a good idea but project seems to have lost direction. Stable is too far behind and unstable just plain don't work in too many cases. Minor package updates can break things in a major way and any complaints are met with 'what do you expect in unstable ?'
I suspect many Gentoo developers wish to return to being a niche distro.
Ubuntu - I've settled with for now. I can compile anything I need a newer version of, and updates don't tend to bork the box.
Please feel free to piont out any erors in my speling grammer
I care a lot.
I would and have.
All other options, for embedded 'real' format content, seem to have issues of one sort or another.
Realplayer for linux just works.
We sometimes hear of so called 'scene' topsites that well connected 'pirates' have access to.
Surely the commercial newsfeeds could in fact be regarded as 'Pay as you go' topsites. How they get left alone to profit from rampant copyright theft is beyond me.
Not that I care. I download films from my own ISP's newsserver, which is one of the few left in the uk to have a decent binary newsfeed.
I'm sure the only reason they keep it going is that its cheaper for them to supply as much of their customers warez requirements as possible, on their own backbone, than it is for everyone to be seeking the stuff on the wider net.
Still find it weird that its allowed to go on though
As per usual no mod points when I'd like to use one (+1 Insightful)
1. There are far more than two variations of English.
2. Whether you like it or not you have an American accent. Some stupid people around the world will judge you, solely on that basis, the first time they hear it.
Just as you would judge people based on on that same criteria.
The fact that a lot, or indeed the majority, of your peers may be judging people in this fashion does not make it right.
Sensible people judge others on there deeds and contributions not their voices.
Luckily in the UK the days are long gone when some folk (quaint Northern English word, I must be backward) unfortunately felt the need 'lose' an accent to get on in life.
It really doesn't matter any more. Even the Newsreaders can have accents here now.
Sounds like many of you over there still have a long way to go before you can shake off what is just one of many prejudices.
Good luck and I hope you make it.
What then of the 95% percent of the worlds population that aren't, believe it or not, from the USA ?
How must we sound to maintain a semblance of intelligence ?
You americans all have an accent from my perspective.
There is no such thing as no accent.
I see this as a far more nefarious use of the protocol than people swapping warez.
If you must stick with Windows get xplite and remove them completely. You can still boot.
http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html