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I'm sorry he had such a bad experience with Gentoo. I personally have been using Gentoo for all our servers for the past 3-4 years now and could never go back t
by asnyder 17y ago
I'm sorry he had such a bad experience with Gentoo. I personally have been using Gentoo for all our servers for the past 3-4 years now and could never go back to anything else. I love portage, ports, and use flags.
It's hard to believe that Gentoo wiped out your web directory, but I can believe it. However, I am careful to make backups before I make a drastic upgrade. For example, when upgrading PostgreSQL I always make sure to back up my dbs before hand, though I've never had an issue with it wiping out. Not yet anyway.
- varikin 17y agoI really loved how portage worked as well. I started using Gentoo in 2004 because it was one of the 2 distros that initially supported AMD64—I had an AMD64 FX51. In fact, I used Gentoo until about 2 years ago, so another 3 or 4 years after that incident. I stopped using Gentoo because my home computer blew up (major hardware failure) and I had to switch from Linux to Windows at work. And I still haven't replaced my home computer. I had backups, but I actually never applied them because I decided to create a new website instead.