<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Warpme <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warpme@o2.pl" target="_blank">warpme@o2.pl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 1/6/13 1:11 AM, Nick Rout wrote:<br>
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I am looking at updating my backend, made necessary by the fact that it is mythbuntu 10.04 (no myth 0.26 packages).<br>
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I really hate this 2 yearly cycle of updating ubuntu distros, even on LTS. I thought maybe a rolling release like Arch would alleviate me from having to do that.<br>
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Speaking about Gentoo vs. Archlinux. Brief look at that time showed me:<br>
1\gentoo<br>
+You control EVERY aspect of Your OS (starting from what is on HDD, ending on how binaries were compiled)<br>
-compiles and upgrades sometimes are not so easy<br>
-doing full system upgrade means recompile many OS components<br></blockquote></div><br>Just to muddy the waters a little more:<br><br>My myth combined FE/BE has been using Gentoo for 7 years now. I originally was drawn to Gentoo because I thought the customized compilation sounded like a good idea, however that has turned out to be almost a non-factor. The huge bonus of an OS like Gentoo is in fact the rolling release. I've never had to wipe and reinstall the OS, and only once have I had to recompile the entire system (when I switched from an AMD to a recent Intel chip), and even then it took only about 8 hours with my bottom-end Sandy Bridge i3. I update the system every day because I prefer to deal with the significant upgrades a little bit at a time instead of being hit with a bunch of issues at once. This way if something breaks (rare) then I have a very good idea what caused it and can focus my attention on it. I've been through several notable lirc, LCDd, udev, rc upgrades which required significant config file editing, but I can generally tell which packages are going to take some time to update ahead of time, and I'll wait until I have some time available. I've also never gotten stuck in the dependency hell like I hear about frequently for the binary distributions. A simple revdep-rebuild will detect broken linkages (seems to be getting more rare now) and rebuild the affected packages.<br>
<br>One nice side effect of compiling everything is that you are automatically going to have a suitable development environment set up, and this makes applying patches trivial. In fact, when an ebuild uses the default functions, you can just drop a patch file in an appropriately-named directory and it will get automatically picked up and applied during compilation.<br>
<br>Having said that, I wouldn't recommend Gentoo to a newbie unless I knew they were very tech savvy and very determined. The documentation is good, but it's definitely some (all) assembly required. Probably not as severe as Slackware is (was?) though.<br>
<br>Karl<br>