On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:29:23AM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote:

> Anyway, my point is that the reason you stated above for staying with it,
> is the very reason I left it. I don't want to have to tinker constantly. I
> do enough of that at work to keep me satiated. When I need to use a
> computer, I just want it to work so I can do other things.

I agree that you can spend plenty of time tweaking a Gentoo system. My
experience, however, has been that once the system is installed it's
been pretty tinker-free. That's probably due in part to the fact that I
run a fairly lean system.

I've done one major system update (equivalent to Debian's 'apt-get
dist-upgrade') and it went very well. I started it when I left work, and
it was done in the morning. You won't have that experience on a P133 w/
32 MB RAM, however. :-)

-Tim

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