Upgrading/Installing to Distro?
Under 'gentoo', you have listed version 2005.0… which is somewhat old.
What I'm wondering is, can I upgrade that, in other words emerge --sync && emerge -u world, making the system current? Or am I limited to a mirror of the packages contained in the 2005.0 version of gentoo?
It is important that I have the latest versions of Ruby on Rails and some other programs..
-Thanks
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* *you have to use one of the Linode kernels
*you cannot load kernel modules (but Linode will respond favourably to reasonable requests to build features in, subject to stability and security conditions being satisfied)</list>
You can either update the supplied Gentoo distribution or build your own from the tarball of your choice.
Compiling things like glibc puts a big strain on a small Linode - most people either use distcc or build their systems on home machines.