-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Lewko wrote: > I am also reluctant to do the RPM thing!� I am staying with Kubuntu for > now.� I agree that the six month thing is a pain.� It depends on what > you are looking for - stability? > > What I think Debian, and its derivatives, is missing right now is a > project that simply takes the existing Debian stable and replaces the > kernel with the latest stable kernel with the current sid kernel patches > in as the default in the installer.� If I were the Debian president I > would announce and look for resources to add that to the project. > Things are a little more complicated than that. For example, recent kernel changes meant that you needed a very recent version of the nVidia driver which in turn depended on a certain recent version of X.org which had certain dependencies in other user space utilities that dealt with hotplug/udev etc.
Other than the slavish devotion to the 6 month release schedule (which a business is not going to use, they really only care about the LTS release which should IMO have a predictable release schedule), the other gripe I have with Ubuntu is there aggressive push for the latest gcc. These are pretty minor in the scheme of things, Ubuntu is really the distro I imagined for years. A more up to date Debian that was easier to manage. Reasonably recent versions of X, the kernel, and most applications (that have Debian or Ubuntu maintainers). In messing around a little with it, Cent/RHEL is pretty solid too, possibly even more so than a Ubuntu LTS. I also have nothing against RPMs anymore. There was a time when there was no comparing an RPM distro to a Debian one, but the RPM distros have pretty much caught up at this point. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpjfr0ACgkQwRXgH3rKGfMcAwCfSuYJXK6AIsV+Oz9PlX26h8T2 67oAn2R6kBiEnywl8ya+cTF6RGaqvvl4 =wl/3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
