Other distros (was RE: Waxing Philosophical)

[Allen Ziegenfus]

On the fine day of Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:15:13 -0600
Michal Jaegermann <michal at ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca> said very
eloquently:

> The problem is that when you installed new libraries then whatever
> still needs old versions will not start.  Whatever was running
> before is still running as it is using images loaded into memory.
> OTOH if you replace some programs with versions which require
> new libraries before they are available they will barf on you
> as well.  This includes whatever you are using to update your
> system.  To synchronize that sounds like a very hard problem
> if solvable at all.

I'm not sure if this is what you are talking about, but after running
Gentoo for a year my system has become very unreliable in terms of
various applications crashing frequently. I've been working on
rebuilding my system on a new partition and everything seems to work
there. But I wonder how much Gentoo has really been thought out. It
doesn't seem like constantly updating your packages results in
stability. 

At the time I installed it, Gentoo was the only distro that I could
really run. I looked at FreeBSD I believe, and it didn't support my
network card. I use GnuCash on my alpha, and Debian didn't have a
working build of it. But maybe now Fedora is an option. 

Allen-- 
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