Re: Re: Ok. Heh, is there still an smtp-based list out here:D

Talking about Vista... http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/915.gif

//Tobbe

On 2/1/07, Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, whenever I get some upgraded power hardware I'll probably try
> > Gentoo
> > again. But taking a whole day to compile openoffice (several times in a
> > month) is just not feasible. That particular collection of programs might
> > become more modular over time but there's always something else huge
> > to take its place. Things are done very different in various distros
> > though,
> > so some experiences might not help at all, but it at least gives a more
> > general knowledge of the linux way of doing things!
> Try a KDE full recompile (at least a day on my system).
>
> If you stick to the stable tree (+x86), things don't come out quite as
> often (but the compiling takes longer, because you have to do more at
> any given time) and the system is actually stable (I can't remember the
> last time I have managed to crash something). Combine that with a
> nightly cronjob to update everything except the largest packages (I do
> kde and oo on fridays at 10:30pm on one system and sundays at 1am on
> another) and you don't have to think about having a system that is ever
> obsolete or updating while you are using it.
>
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