Comment Re:Always (Score 3, Insightful) 490
"Always" is spot on the mark, for Gentoo users. Gentoo releases are just lines in the sand, announced for the purpose of printing LiveCDs. We have to change a symlink which determines which version is running every year or so, but all programs are upgraded incrementally on demand using the best of breed package management facility, Portage. To quote the docs on the subject of upgrades:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml"Here in Gentoo land, the concept of upgrading is quite different compared to the rest of the Linux world. You probably already know that we never got in touch with the "classic" way of upgrading software: waiting for a new release, downloading it, burning, putting it in the cdrom drive and then following the upgrade instructions. You know (being a Gentoo user after all) that this process is extremely frustrating for power users that want to live on the bleeding edge. [...]"
