Testing the bleeding edge [LWN.net]

Testing the bleeding edge

Posted Mar 5, 2006 18:03 UTC (Sun) by alspnost (subscriber, #2763)
In reply to: Testing the bleeding edge by job
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Indeed - this describes my setup too. I run Gentoo, and I have a list of packages tagged in my 'unstable' list, so I can get the bleeding edge versions. This way, I've *never* broken my system, as the core is solid, but I can still play with the latest apps etc. Mind you, even on Gentoo, architectures like AMD64 are still slightly second-tier, so crucial things like Firefox can take an age to be marked stable. I just run nightly binaries of 1.5, which suits me well. I'd be very happy to use a distro with a solid, stable core (kernel, toolchain, libraries, server components) and then to play about with bleeding edge stuff on top. But going for something like Fedora, which sometimes seems to have beta/CVS versions of the entire damn system, just doesn't inspire me.

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Testing the bleeding edge

Posted Mar 25, 2006 11:23 UTC (Sat) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]

I also run Gentoo on a number of systems, but my experience is different.
Even the stable tree broke my system a couple of times. ("Broke" in the
sense I had to fix things manually.) It doesn't really compare to Debian
stables, even if it has other features Debian doesn't.