On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:22, Reid Thompson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:03:18AM -0700, bg wrote: > > > > Older than dirt - Core2. > > > > It's pretty stable, though. The only real problem that's beginning > > to get annoying is the Mozilla 1.7 browser, with the increasing > > number of web pages it refuses to read, even with as late a > > vintage plug-ins as I can cram into it :-) > > > > I'm probably going to be upgrading within the next 30 days. > > I've been considering Ubuntu 9.04. Any suggestions? > > > > > ubuntu is nice -- easily maintained > And the make scripts provided by > Paul/others makes running from git ( if you have the desire ) fairly > straightforward. > > If you're into that kind of thing, gentoo is good. And actually quite > stable. I run ubuntu at home right now and gentoo at work. I've run > gentoo at home before and will again as soon as i get a decent spare > box. > > what specs does your box have? > > reid
Athlon 2.6 with 1Gb RAM, 160Gb RAID Level 1 array. I've been experimenting with Ubuntu 8.10 on another machine. One of the things that both looks attractive about Ubuntu, and also generates a bit of apprehension, is the automatic "hands-off" updating. I'm not yet convinced that's really a good idea. What with dependencies and libraries and all the other potentially mismatched areas when changing software versions, I have some difficulty believing that it's even possible to reliably automate that process. But I could be wrong. Brewster -- *********************************************************************** Embrace a sharing community of sustainable low-carbon diversity *********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us Portland, OR USA *********************************************************************** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list