[clue-tech] Taking the Gentoo Plunge?

[Ken MacFerrin]

David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Ken MacFerrin wrote:
>> Another thing I've enjoyed is the basic lack of a release cycle.
>> Gentoo takes more of a continuous evolution approach of regular
>> updates so there's no single "upgrade" pains from release to
>> release.. The caveat is you will occasionally have some maintenance
>> to do when a package needs reconfigured due to a major update to that
>> application; and this can sometimes happen after a normal update when
>> you didn't really plan time to deal with it.
> 
> This is what I like most about Free Software, though I use Debian
> testing or unstable.
> 

True.. this is often how you end up getting most of your real education
in maintaining linux systems.  Kind of a forced learning cycle.