On Jun 2, 2012 6:21 PM, "Mayuresh" <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > > I am looking for a suitable distro for following usage pattern: > > 1. Rolling updates with a small base system. (No huge downloads every 6 > months and hours of upgrade and configuration time. This is where I am > parting ways with Fedora which I trusted and used for many years. What > triggers a change is a recent upgrade has broken my system beyond > imagination.) > > 2. Source as well as binary options for installations. > > 3. Fairly leading edge base and packages. (Unlike conservative BSDs one of > which I will be anway using or slackware.) > > 4. Stable. I will be using this as a backup or secondary OS, with primary > OS as NetBSD. I'll be anyway be experimenting, making and breaking things > on NetBSD. So need the secondary environment to be stable that can be > easily fallen back to. Also, certain things like printer, scanner etc > don't as yet work on NetBSD, so do certain applications, for which I want > to turn to a reliable alternative. > > Evaluating Arch and Gentoo. Somewhat confused about what suits better for > above profile.
You may also check slackware. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
