Switching from Gentoo to Ubuntu

jwdonal · Post by **jwdonal** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:30 pm

Hey all. I've been seriously considering switching my webserver/email-server/blog/router/CVS-server/bugzilla/etc/etc machine from gentoo to ubuntu.

I started learning linux on gentoo a loooooooong time ago. And talk about diving headfirst into linux - dang! But I did learn a ton...but now I'm just tired of having to compile everything when I want to upgrade the system and also having to deal with all the dependency issues of portage (i.e. gentoo's package manager). I think it would be nice to have a much more user-friendly upgrade and package install process from this point forward. Gentoo is just too much of a maintenance hassle and manual/tedious labor process as far as I'm concerned.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Just curious.

pz!

Jonathon

cartlemmy · Post by **cartlemmy** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:42 pm

Ubuntu is cool, thought lately they've been doing some stuff that's been a little bit troublesome. But as far as updating goes it's been a breeze.

Dwedit · Post by **Dwedit** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:44 pm

I just run Ubuntu on a "server", it's an Atom-based machine. No monitor attached or anything, just Ethernet. Two huge hard drives running RAID-1, and it's all set to go.

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 5:13 am

Well I haven't used Ubuntu much but it seems to like to crash/refuses to boot after an automatic update.
Maybe I'll need to reinstall it.