ביום חמישי, 30 באוקטובר 2003, 17:33, נכתב על ידי Gal Goldschmidt:
> Hi,
>
> I search for a dream distribution
>
> Software:
>
> OO1.1
> Moz1.5+FB0.7 ( Support for Xprint)
> Xprint
> Culmus
> Koffice 1.2.1
> KDE 1.3.4
> Pine
> Latex+Hebrew
> Lynx
> XEmacs/Emacs
> Vim
> Xmms + mp3
> Xpdf
> gv
> Kdevelop
> Eclipse
> All the POSIX utils
> No ADware.
most of the s/w comes in mdk9.2. other can be easily installed

> Management:
> APT based, so I can upgrade just about everything but the kernel, on-line.
> Never have to reinstall/upgrade the OS offline.
urpmi?
anyway, you can use apt-get in mdk, it will use urpmi database.

> 1. RH and Mandrake have this annoying "upgrade every year or no security
> updates" policy.
so sad and true

> Also upgrading from one version to another is a ceremony of taking the
> machine down for a few hours.
don't do that then.
do what i did a couple of times:
updates the medias and update all rpms (worked from 8.1 to 9.0, and 9.2rc2 to 
9.2  "final")

> I can't blame them, they need some way to make us upgrade and buy the new
> version.
>
> 2. Debian is close, but Woody is very old and no Hebrew support.
> Unstable is well... unstable, the kde is broken because of a broken
> libsensors.
> It seem to work, it has problems and it's a moving target, keeping a secure
> and stable machine with it is not easy.
>
> 3. The closest thing I got is Gentoo,
>
> So do I have to compile everything and make a tar file distro?
you can use stage 3. no compilation needed.
no h/w autodetection. usb disk on key is not automagically mounted. 

can anyone comment on fedora?
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diego, 4 Heshvan 5764

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