I've heard Gentoo is instable...

apax · 05-27-2003, 03:21 PM

Is Gentoo instable? A friend of mine said this to me when I said to him that i was thinking about trying Gentoo...

je_fro · 05-27-2003, 03:25 PM

It's only as unstable as you want it to be. Read the docs about your USE flags, and portage. It'll be ok.

jtshaw · 05-28-2003, 09:59 AM

Gentoo has a package management system that you can tweak for your needs.

By default Gentoo will install a stable version of everything. However, they do include new versions of a lot of software in the portage tree sometimes before it is stable, messing with your use flags can cause you to get the bleeding edge software packages.

I run gentoo on my system at home and it is rock solid. Only problem I ever had was getting OpenOffice to compile.

busbarn · 05-28-2003, 11:54 AM

I agree with jtshaw. I haven't had any problems with stability. I haven't had any x crashes or software problems. THe only problem I've had compiling is with openoffice. It's been much more consistant for me than red hat or suse.

titanium_geek · 05-31-2003, 03:17 PM

cool, will think about changing to gentoo