On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 03:21:50PM +0530, Narendra Diwate wrote: > I remember i had started the discussion on Rolling releases. > I have moved from Opensuse 9 to 10 to 11 and 11.1 and then to Ubuntu 9.10, > 10.04 and will move to 10.10 when it comes out. This is to me is a lot of > work that i would like to avoid. That was the logic and reasoning for the > post. And I was looking at advice to install Arch, though the documentation > is quite detailed, it needs a live internet connection that I dont have (See > my other post about Sify, I need to login thru a browser). That is the only > reason I backed out of Arch. Otherwise I like its philosophy of simple and > elegant code and little cruft. > > I also considered Sabayon and Sidux, as also AntiX, but decided to wait out, > before taking the plunge. > > I will install a rolling release for sure, when i am a little more > experienced with both command line and trouble shooting. > I read the Mint Debian Edition blog today and loved it, as it is a Rolling > release. However i too will wait till 64bit comes out and the project > matured a bit more. > > And Linux Mint is not moving to debian as base, but merely releasing another > edition based on Debian. I can install a few more distros on my system as i > have free partitions available for them, but i am not just because they > involve a big download. > > But surely I am a Rolling Release guy who is using Ubuntu till he is more > comfortable with Linux in general. I am also a frugal guy who believes an OS > should not use up a huge amount of HD space. So something that fits in 4-5 > GB max is what i will install.
Why don't you try Debian testing? It seems to be most popular rolling release distro. -- Regards, Nitesh Mistry www.mistrynitesh.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GB/J/IT/O>TW d+(-) s+:+>: a- C+ UL>+++ P L++>+++ !E W++ N* o? K? w--- O? M-- V? PS+() PE(++)(-) Y+ PGP+ t 5? X R tv+ b+ DI D G e+++>++++ h-- !r y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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