[GLLUG] GLLUG

[Phillip Hofmeister]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 at 05:50:07PM -0400, C. Ulrich wrote:
> But this is a *good* thing. For starters, it's easy and it works. Every
> single time I've tried to upgrade a Linux distro to a new version, it
> either failed, left he machine unusable, or mucked the system up bad
> enough that it wasn't worth salvaging. With FreeBSD, if you follow the
> instructions and know what you're doing, your upgrade will almost
> certainly succeed. Knowing what you're doing is easy, too, since FreeBSD
> is very very well documented.

*cough* Debian *cough*.  I have NEVER had a botched Debian upgrade.
They test things down pretty damn well.

> There are some bonuses to this method as well: both your kernel and
> userland can be compiled with flags to optimize for your exact system
> and it's extremely easy to build the operating system on a fast machine
> and then install the resulting kernel and binaries on a slower one.

Optimization doesn't give you *THAT* much an edge from many benchmarks I
have read, although I am thinking about looking at gentoo for fun (not
that I would ever use it on a production system...too unstable (versions
are always changing)).

Be well,

-- 
Phillip Hofmeister

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