http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2007/10/20/old-school-linux/ Miscellaneous ramblings on miscellaneous topics Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:34:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2007/10/20/old-school-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-533 Head Geek Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:54:28 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2007/10/20/old-school-linux/#comment-533 I don't need the latest of everything, just of a few things -- OTR being one of them. I don’t need the latest of everything, just of a few things — OTR being one of them.

]]> http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2007/10/20/old-school-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-532 Joshua Lee Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:00:03 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2007/10/20/old-school-linux/#comment-532 Well, if you want the latest of everything there is the alternative of running a rolling-release distribution, like Archlinux or Foresight - but then once in a blue moon things break. (Foresight's conary has a nice feature of being able to roll back changes.) One can also do something like running Debian unstable or the Ubuntu equivalent, then of course one does deal with serious breakage every now and then; more-so than distributions designed to have frequent upgrades. There's also source distros like gentoo that allow one to have frequent upgrades via automated compilation and source depedency resolution, but my hard-drive, CPU, and modem will thank you if we don't discuss those. ;-) Well, if you want the latest of everything there is the alternative of running a rolling-release distribution, like Archlinux or Foresight - but then once in a blue moon things break. (Foresight’s conary has a nice feature of being able to roll back changes.) One can also do something like running Debian unstable or the Ubuntu equivalent, then of course one does deal with serious breakage every now and then; more-so than distributions designed to have frequent upgrades. There’s also source distros like gentoo that allow one to have frequent upgrades via automated compilation and source depedency resolution, but my hard-drive, CPU, and modem will thank you if we don’t discuss those.

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