Nothing can touch gentoo when it comes to keeping an up-to-date linux system. It has the tools (emerge, dispatch-conf, elogviewer, etc.) to tell you what has changed since yesterday, get the changes, and integrate them into your system. linux is a crazy-assed pile of mismanaged bits that are freshly broken in a dozen ways every single day. Anybody that runs a linux system will…<\/p>\n
It’s part of the whole cocky “look what I can do” competitiveness built into every geek. Go ahead, now it’s time for you to lie to me and tell me otherwise. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n
My current strategy for staying on the back of the bucking linux bronco…<\/p>\n
On my bleeding edge machine, I update the entire system every night. Then I run a script to (re-)pop up dispatch-conf in a terminal, and elogviewer in an X window, so that when I look at the machine, I have an immediate summary of configuration changes and what I need to do to update.<\/p>\n
UPDATE<\/strong>: I’m adding categories for each of my gentoo machines, to track cascading configuration changes. Check out my groovy icons!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nothing can touch gentoo when it comes to keeping an up-to-date linux system. It has the tools (emerge, dispatch-conf, elogviewer, etc.) to tell you what has changed since yesterday, get the changes, and integrate them into your system. linux is a crazy-assed pile of mismanaged bits that are freshly broken in a dozen ways every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,14,15,16,18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo-desktop","category-gentoo-notes","category-gentoo-server","category-gentoo-nightly","category-gentoo-media-center","category-tricks-tips-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t