Greetings Truth, We at BOSI have been on AEON for several months now, and I am liking what I see.
What I see is a framework to get around variable reuse... :^) Regards, Flint On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 8:30 AM Rick Troth <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/26/24 2:13 PM, Mark Post wrote: > >> My preference is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but Leap works "if I gotta". > > > > I don't know why you would want to do this to yourself. > > Tumbleweed is not for the faint of heart, to say the least, and isn't > > nearly as likely to still be functioning after an update as Leap. > > > I've been a fan of SUSE for a long time. > Skipping details of that (and "Linux is Linux" as far as I'm concerned), > but I was using OpenSUSE Leap. > THEN at some point I found myself stuck, could not upgrade, across > certain Leap release boundaries. > I was assured by one colleague, "that won't happen", but it did. > Probably my own ignorance. > Turned out, though, that Tumbleweed has never yet gotten me into that > stuck space. (Not keen on "rolling release" otherwise.) > > I've had other distros and systems get "release stuck": 'apt' based and > 'pkg' based, including several FreeBSD systems. > In some cases, I don't care, because I compile the most sensitive > packages myself. But the system as a whole kinda needs to work the way > the vendor/distributor designed, so being unable to upgrade is a bad thing. > > I've been using Tumbleweed for at least three years now. Never gotten > "release stuck". Consistently works well after an upgrade. And my > home-built stuff works fine too. > > > -- > -- R; <>< > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
