On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 22:27 -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:20:04 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > > > I use Firefox not with Debian, > > but other distros. > > I didn't notice that..I see Arch Linux listed among the multitudes: > > http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/12.10/gldt1210.svg > > You can't have too many Linux distros apparently. What's to like about Arch > Linux?
I've got several Linux and FreeBSD installed, but I only maintain and use one or maximal three installs. At the moment I use Arch Linux only, but I maintain Arch Linux and Ubuntu Quantal. If I would use *nix for office and graphic only, I would use Debian stable or FreeBSD, to keep environments stable as they are, as long as possible. Since I _try_ to use Linux for audio productions for around 10 years now I _need_ distros that are close to upstream development. With my old audio cards I once had good luck with a distro, so I "freezed" it and used it as long as possible. I needed to get a better sound card and since I own this card, I guess it's for less than 3 years now, I need to hunt latest software versions, since I never got a Linux working properly for audio productions. Once I should get a stable Linux for audio work again, I'll freeze it and make tons of backups, I'll start beating myself up, pray to a god and one time each year I'll nudge a virgin into a vulcano, to ensure that I can stay with this distro as long as possible. Summarized, Arch is a rolling release, but anyway a major distro, IOW it don't has release versions, just "main" and "testing" repositories and a huge community. It's as stable as Debian stable and FreeBSD, but note, even a stable distro that always does use latest software after it was tested comes with the drawback, that upstream much too often changes GUIs that much, that t will brake a sane work flow much to often. So for example, old and current GIMP are stable, but I've got issues with current GIMP regarding to the worflow and I don't need new options. For different tasks it could be, that I prefer to reboot between different *nix, usually Linux. Btw. since around one or two years I need a Windows too, fortunately just on a virtual machine. I _won_, didn't buy it myself, an iPad and regarding to this, I need ad-hoc for the network or iTunes. Ad-hoc never worked, I'm testing it from time to time, iTunes doesn't run on wine, so I installed XP to VBox. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1365327722.4069.43.camel@archlinux
