Subj : For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
To : DaiTengu
From : Accession
Date : Sat Jun 08 2024 08:04 am
On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 01:25:02 -0500, you wrote:
D> Fun fact, Gentoo now offers binary packages. This is a thing they did
D> recently.
I take it you mean, "officially", or something? I remember there being side projects that tried to introduce it, especially when Sabayon Linux was popular. But to be honest, Gentoo is Gentoo. Binary packages kind of defeats the entire purpose and meaning of Gentoo. :)
D> one of my co-workers also runs Gentoo, but he's a bit more insane than
D> I am. he just did an update with the latest profile and it completely
D> hosed his system.
For some reason, I'm starting to have a case of deja vu. lol
D> I'm still running a Gentoo profile from 2017 I think. I got a
D> notification the other day that I need to update my profile to something
D> newer, but you better believe I'll be using some kind of clonedisk or
D> something first just in case :D
Even back when I used Gentoo, *most* of the normal stuff was usually fine, and wouldn't break your system. It usually wasn't until you had X and whatever desktop environment of your choice installed where your graphics drivers needed to be re-installed a certain specific way or everything was trashed. Then you would have to go through and make sure every trace of the old driver was gone, in order to maybe successfully install the new one.
It was a pain in the ass, but that was across all distros at that time. However, definitely worse off for the Ubuntu kids that couldn't log into their systems because of their login managers (mostly just because of lack of know-how). Ah, those were the days. :)
Regards,
Nick
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