Tim: >> Just pick an OS that doesn't need updating/discarding all the time.
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr: > Which OS's would that be?...just to satisfy my own curiosity?... There's CentOS, and there was (may still be) a long life version of Ubuntu. Where you install a particular release, and there isn't a cut-off date for the creation of any updates. So, you can do package updates for years to come, without having to do a destroy and rebuild total upgrade. Of course, you get older, less changed, applications. But that's not so much of an issue on a file server, where you don't use web browsers, word processors, etc. Or there are rolling-update distros, like Gentoo (if it's still around,a and still works, that way). Where everything installed is updated, as needs be, bit by bit. So, what was installed 4 years ago, is never an out-of-date system. And, for the true gluttons for punishment, you can roll your own install from the source files. If you like, you can have very little other than core files and networking. No Gnome, KDE, whatever... -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
