On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Tim tim-pdx...@sentinelchicken.org wrote:
I'm just going to say it: You can't have your cake and eat it too.
You want an up-to-date distro that's been fully tested. Well, there
just aren't enough resources around to do this in the open source
community.
It
... by reducing this complexity where possible. That means, either:
1) more distros that don't offer every piece of software under the
sun, all packaged up with a wing-and-a-prayer that it might, sorta
mostly work.
True, a narrower focus in a distro helps you provide both timeliness
and
Michael Robinson wrote:
I have been trying to build a local repository of the Fedora 10 updates,
but now there is Fedora 11. Yikes!
I wish there was an attempt to take a stable distro like CentOS which
works without updates and add modern features to it. I realize that
CentOS is an
I believe the Ubuntu Long Term Support editions do exactly what you state: a
linux distribution that is supported for a long time, and you are expected
to go to the internet to get packages for it.
It does not, however, do the other thing you asked for, which is to add
modern features. I'm afraid
Hello,
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michael Robinson
plu...@robinson-west.comwrote:
I have been trying to build a local repository of the Fedora 10 updates,
but now there is Fedora 11. Yikes!
Yes Fedora 11 is out, with 12 on the way. It is a 6 month cycle.
If that is too fast for you,
I wish there was an attempt to take a stable distro like CentOS which
works without updates and add modern features to it. I realize that
CentOS is an enterprise distribution that tries to follow RHEL, but
the problem is that there needs to be something between CentOS and
Fedora.
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