{"id":202,"date":"2004-12-15T01:05:31","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T09:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=202"},"modified":"2004-12-15T01:05:31","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T09:05:31","slug":"major-upgrade-on-silverfirnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/major-upgrade-on-silverfirnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Upgrade on Silverfir.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I completed a major software upgrade of SilverFir.net. The process was extremely painless, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/debian.org\">Debian<\/a>&#8216;s excellent package management system. Now all I have to test out is if the system will reboot or not, since among the things I updated is lilo, the Linux Loader.<\/p>\n<p>The experiene has left me thinking somewhat more favorably of Debian over the choice of many of my friends, <a href=\"http:\/\/gentoo.org\">Gentoo<\/a>. Gentoo compiles everything from source, which is nice for ultimate optimization, but it takes forever, and really, its packages are no more customizable than what I have with Debian. Besides, I compile from source &#8211; without package management &#8211; the major server software I use anyway, because I want even more control than Gentoo offers easily &#8211; so the rest of the stuff is just helper software that I want to work, hassle free. And Debian does that, Gentoo does not.<\/p>\n<p>For now, at least, Debian remains my distribution of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I completed a major software upgrade of SilverFir.net. The process was extremely painless, thanks to Debian&#8216;s excellent package management system. Now all I have to test out is if the system will reboot or not, since among the things I updated is lilo, the Linux Loader. The experiene has left me thinking somewhat more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,8],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-silverfir","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}