On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 17:33, Gal Goldschmidt wrote: > 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. >
I would add mplayer to that. > Management: > APT based, so I can upgrade just about everything but the kernel, on-line. > Never have to reinstall/upgrade the OS offline. > > 1. RH and Mandrake have this annoying "upgrade every year or no security > updates" policy. > Also upgrading from one version to another is a ceremony of taking the machine > down for a few hours. > 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. What about testing? Don't know about the status of kde. I believe there was some problems with gnome but not sure. I run stable for quite some time now and rarely have stability problems (usually related to foolish stuff I do with the kernel and X drivers). > > 3. The closest thing I got is Gentoo, > > So do I have to compile everything and make a tar file distro? > > Bye > Gal > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
