[Gllug] [OT] Appreciation

[Juergen Schinker]

Am Sa, 16.12.2006, 14:59, schrieb Martin A. Brooks:
> Juergen Schinker wrote:
>> there is never a guarantee that your app is gonna run forever
>
> Really?  You take the most heavily tested code

which is?

 you can and run it on the
> most stable platform you can find.

which is?

  With gentoo your debugging pool
> consists of one person: you.

as far as i know there was a time where only one person was writing security
patches for debian and he said he don't wanna do it anymore...

 With debian, I have the input of
> _thousands_ of systems all running the exact same binaries.  Not just
> the same source code, the _exact same binary_.

how do you get the input ?
>
> When your toolchain is changing daily you may as well just throw any
> attempt at debugging and have some monkey restarting crashed programs as
> and when they fail.

FUD; the toolchain is very stable and conservative,
thats why the switch to GCC 4.x.x was late

BTW i found this cool site http://www.sabayonlinux.org/

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