Sorry to be a zealot but openSUSE has daily (and sometimes hourly) updated repositories of almost every linux app under the sun. The OpenSUSE Build Service (http://open-build-service.org) is an amazing platform for package creation. And it also works for Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu.
Give SUSE some love! -- Evolution (n): A hypothetical process whereby infinitely improbable events occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and no one is given credit. On 3 June 2011 07:56, Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: > Fedora is probably the most cutting edge distribution (it uses the > newest versions of all the most important software). Fedora sort of > sucks in Africa because every time you do the equivelent of a > apt-cache search it pulls the latest package list from the server > which sucks over a slow network. You can turn that off but it still > will update try once a day. > > Debian unstable is pretty aggressive about using new software as > well, but that also eats bandwidth because there are updated > packages released every day. > > Gentoo is maybe a good distro for learning to develop Linux because > you have to do so much by hand. It is complicated, so it forces you > to learn how the programs fit together and how they are configured. > > regards, > dan carpenter > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. >
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