I think you should consider using either ubuntu sts or debian testing. A
couple of years ago, I switched my entire userbase, like 200 end-users,
over to ubuntu sts. That's updated every 6 months.
I use it on my desktop and have never had any significant problems. We
have about 80 machines in offices (some of them are shared by several
students), about 30 lab machines, and 7 small super computers, all
running ubuntu desktop sts. ?We have had no problems what so ever with
the office or the super computers. But we have had some problems with
kernel instability in the labs. Those machines are part of a
beowulf/condor cluster and are shared by a few dozen grad students. So
some user might be remotely running a fluid dynamics modelling program
while someone else at the console is updating their youtube channel. So
I doubt the problem has anything to do with ubuntu.
I am currently working on trying debian testing on those lab machines. I
used to run debian testing on my own desktops all the time. I never had
any problems. I know plenty of other people who do the same. I've heard
of the occasional problem but I think mostly, debian testing is way more
stable than the name would imply. I've done probably 50 automated
installs over the past few weeks and I have been very impressed with
debian testing/stretch.
-- John Heim
On 04/26/2017 04:22 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
#+OPTIONS: latex:t toc:nil H:3
So, if Debian is all we have, pretty much, who cares about
accessibility, what is there for those who want a clean, but
up-to-date system other than Arch? As a user, of Emacs with
Emacspeak and Voxin mostly, I find Arch stable enough to
basically do a job. I "work" 3 hours a day with teaching clients
Assistive technology, with Emacs, atop Arch. Which reminds me, I
should set up an Outlook rule which forwards all incoming email
from that darn exchange server to my gmail address... Anyways,
I’m just a user speaking, I do not yet know a programming
language, besides a bit of lisp, how to successfully print in
Python, and a few HTML rules, enough to know that when I htmlize
some Org markup, it’ll look okay on Outlook in HTML message
mode. All this to say, I want up to date packages. I /know/
there will be bugs. There /always/ is bugs in any system. iOS’s
Braille input is sluggish, probably a memory leak, Android’s
Braille support just plain stinks, like Narrator on Win XP, and
the Mate notification system repeats itself. So really, I’ll
take a /few/ bugs for freedom and updated packages any day..
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