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No, friend, I can't make a suitable comparison of Gentoo to Debian/Ubuntu/Mint..
Monday, 31-Dec-12 10:21:48 UTC from api-
@neurario Gentoo: extremely flexible and powerful when done right, disaster otherwise. The others: should just work.
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@omni Indeed, they kind of have different purposes. I don't think this guy has even played with linux, but I get the feeling he's looking for somewhere to jump in. :X
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@omni What sucks about Gentoo is the upgrade path. If you don't stay up to date, there's a point when you'll have to start from scratch.
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@omni Whereas running FreeBSD, I can take an ancient 4.x installation and update it all the way to the 9.1 Release.
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@neurario No sane newbie jumps in with Gentoo. That's like climbing the Mount Everest all by yourself after just having learnt how to crawl. Please, recommend him a more same starting point like Mint.
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@kamikaze Define "not stay up-to-date". I hope to never get more than a month behind in the worst case scenario., and I normally update my system practically daily.
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@omni It's up to chance really as it depends on exactly when the critical system-breaking upgrades happen and how many you miss. One month out of date as a worst case should be perfectly safe though. Three months out of date is getting a bit dicey, and six months out of date is just asking for it to break.
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@omni I have some systems that I only update every couple of years.
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@omni You have to update every day? Man, I haven't updated in more than 9 months.
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@omni There's no need to update them. They do what they're supposed to.
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@kamikaze Are they not connected to the Internet or in another state where security updates are not all that important? I can't believe that would be safe.
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@omni It's BSD. They just get it right the first time.
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@omni Most security vulnerabilities are irrelevant to their use cases. If you only run a couple of server services you very rarely get vulnerabilities that actually affect you.
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@toksyuryel Completely off-topic and I can't work on Gentoo now but... would you recommend me to use genkernel or not? :x
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@omni Never use genkernel. It actually doesn't work at all, I have tried it and it always ends with compile errors.
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@toksyuryel I see. Thanks for the tip.
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