> Yes r. siddharth, I appreciate that. Stable is important.By the way, I need > to be educated on this next question. Why should I care if a specific Linux > distro is old verses a newer version distro such as Ubuntu 12.04? Is it so > newer programs can run on it?
There is no such thing as "Linux distro." [1, 2, 3, 4] > I obviously know why windows 7 is better than windows 98 but in the world > of linux distros, an old distro version can be as young as only 2 years. > Please educate me on this. Thank you r. siddharth Check this [5]. P.S. Please stop top-posting [6]. I also recommend you to read this guide [7]. [1] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#why [2] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#whycare [3] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#howerror [4] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#always [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_release [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting [7] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
