Hello, Kindly explain the difference between Rolling and non-rolling distros and in what way has advantages, which is best , since I am newbie to linux cheers, -sriranga(77yrsold)
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Narendra Diwate <narendra.diw...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshi...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjaybhan...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> Gentoo and Archlinux are probably the two most popular rolling >> distros. While gentoo is 'compile almost everything from source' >> (hence based on source packages) archlinux is based on binary >> packages. >> >> I have been using Debian testing for some time now on my laptop and I >> haven't faced any major issue. Debian testing is a semi-rolling distro >> because even that goes into freeze at least once every 2 years. > > > While thinking about this, i did consider all the rolling release distro's > out there. Gentoo was out as i am a non technical user. Sidux and Foresight > as they are not available in 64bit. Debian testing again as I am a non tech > user who would like to use a stable system. > > PCLinuxOS and AntiX are partial rolling releases i heard but not sure how. > So that leaves Arch. Will wait till i am more comfortable with Terminal. > LMDE which came out recently is the one that I will certainly try when they > come out with 64bit. I think i will be most comfortable with that. > > > Regards > > Narendra Diwate > > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
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