how do you keep up with system administration?

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Subject:	how do you keep up with system administration?
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Denis
Date:	29 May 2007

I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current
without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about
maintaining servers - just your "daily driver", so to say.

How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it
your versions in "world"? Should one do this once a week? Once in
two weeks?

How often to you update major components, like Xorg, kernel, and
system tool chain? As soon as new things become available, or, say,
once a month or so?

The reason I ask is because I often don't have a lot of time to devote
to system administration on a regular basis but do want to keep my box
updated as much as possible. How do some of you non-developers
balance system administration with your "day job"?
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