As mentioned before, Fedora is very stable and has very regular updates.
I also like Ubuntu a lot and since I also don't like Unity I use the
Ubuntu flavour with my favourite DE (After all there's Ubuntu,
Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Lubuntu etc. and after install you can
actually install the ot
Thanks for the tip, Steve!
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Steve Litt
wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 13:32:20 +0200
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
>
> > Sorry for being unclear, but by "unusable state" I meant that one can
> > no longer upgrade the system it using "pacman -Syu" (or whatever the
> > comman
On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 13:32:20 +0200
Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Sorry for being unclear, but by "unusable state" I meant that one can
> no longer upgrade the system it using "pacman -Syu" (or whatever the
> command is) because it gives errors. The system itself works fine but
> will run outdated software
On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 12:47:53 +0200
Shlomi Fish wrote:
> I would recommend against Arch Linux because, like I said, its
> installations can be left in an unusable state if one forgets to
> update it frequently enough. I'm not sure about Void Linux as I never
> used it.
I had that happen to me onc
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Omer Zak wrote:
> Yesterday I posted my question about selecting a Linux distribution to
> serve as the host Linux distribution for a system which runs Docker and
> a virtualization system.
>
> For such a system, I'll want to use a stable but up-to-date kernel.
>
>
Hello Yuval,
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Yuval Adam wrote:
>
> >
> > I would recommend against Arch Linux because, like I said, its
> > installations can be left in an unusable state if one forgets to update
> > it frequently enough. I'm not sure about Void Linux as I never used it.
> >
>
>
>
> I would recommend against Arch Linux because, like I said, its
> installations can be left in an unusable state if one forgets to update
> it frequently enough. I'm not sure about Void Linux as I never used it.
>
That's factually incorrect. If you current state is stable, it will
remain sta
Hi Omer and all,
a few recent notes:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Omer Zak wrote:
> Yesterday I posted my question about selecting a Linux distribution to
> serve as the host Linux distribution for a system which runs Docker and
> a virtualization system.
>
> For such a system, I'll want to
Hi,
I'm not sure what your criteria are but, IMO, for you will be best served
using something very common in the docker community. Ubuntu or Debian are
definitely the most common choices. Docker support Centos/RHEL/Ubuntu for
their commercially supported versions.
Using less standard distros will m
Actually, Debian Testing is a bad alternative when wishing to trade off
stability vs. being up-to-date.
On one hand, while Debian Testing is mostly stable, things break all the
time (and get fixed within few days). Not good when you depend upon a
working system for your work. The worst breakages o
I tried to avoid this discussion but I'm a little surprised that nobody
mentioned Debian Testing.
I've used it as a desktop for a decade or so and it had a great combination
of very good stability (i.e. I can't recall it ever disappointed me) and
still relatively up to date.
But then again - it's b
I never said Fedora is unstable!
Arch can be unstable because it try to be on the bleeding edge,
Fedora is "bleeding edge" as far as a stable release can be.
and it has a short release/support cycle.
--
Rabin
On 1 December 2015 at 20:10, Omer Zak wrote:
> Yesterday I posted my question about s
On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Omer Zak wrote:
Yet another option is to use Debian Stable as the host operating system,
like I did so far, but compile and install my own kernel builds
according to the instructions in places such as:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-building-installing-a-custom-li
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