Linked by Bob Minvielle on Wed 17th Jul 2002 19:18 UTC
There have been many articles as of late about the so called "source" distributions of Linux. Articles about "rpm hell" and how to get out of it. While I have been using Red Rat since the first release (and do have some things for and against it) there is no distribution that will please all of the people all of the time. Then again, that is what makes an OS like Linux nice, in my opinion. Choices. Today, Gentoo Linux is my choice.
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My last --update world took me about 16 hours. You can either update the system every so often in the background, while you are working, so it won't 'feel' that it takes too much time, or you can do it every few weeks. I do it about once a month... I leave the PC overnight to compile.. However, the speed of the update has a lot to do with your computer. The faster the CPU, hard drive and amount of memory you have, the faster the update will happen. I still use Gentoo on my old dual Celeron 533 Mhz PC, with 256 MB of RAM and an old Fujitsu IDE 10 GB hard drive.