Dnia 2012-11-25, o godz. 15:54:40 Hugues Moretto-Viry <hugues.more...@gmail.com> napisał(a):
> Thank you for your constructive answer. Actually, I looked this page > but I think many distribs are missing, just because they're not known. > That's why I asked this question. I thought some persons use > something I don't know. > > I think you misunderstood me about "No need to talk about...". It was > related to Gentoo and Slackware I already know. > I wanted to avoid unpleasant comments like "Use google & you'll find > Gentoo". > Your opinion still interests me. I can tell you that I was searching for something like you described. After few years of using Gentoo I can't stand it any more. I was using one Ubuntu box, but it's like bad parts of rolling release with bad parts of versioning release. I was living with testing packages for all, but that was stupid and tedious. Later I switched to stable, but that was also stupid and still tedious. Finally I got to conclusion that rolling release can only really work for minimal installation or "real system" - not distribution (packages thrown together glued by some package manager). It's so much better to have simple versioned core and then manage few special applications yourself. Do you really need to have always the latest Xorg, coreutils, mplayer and other basics? There are of course some things that you will need to have at some specific version (often just the latest). How many? If it is some library it's probably easier to clone the repository and keep updating. If it is some application, that you use professionally, you are keeping track of version changes already. To know what will happen to you soon. If you need some bug-fixes or features from next versions your distribution most probably will not have nightly builds or latest version from VCS. Gentoo will have these for some packages, but you can't really count on them. I prefer "real systems". There should be core that I can always count on and some packages available. If there is specific package needed I get the code from VCS (as I was doing already in Gentoo - the rolling release distro). I am running one Slackware box now and I like it. It's quite simple and consistent. Upgrade from one version to another is pretty painless. I can get additional packages with slapt-get or sbopkg. It's OK. Some people are using pkgsrc with Slackware. If you need minimal installation and not much more even Gentoo should be OK. Slackware should be more then OK. That's the only recommendation that I can honestly give you. Other then that, I would consider for such system (in particular order): one of BSDs (primarily FreeBSD), TinyCore (maybe with some additional package manager), Sorcerer. Never tired any of them. Probably all of them can be used as rolling release (CURRENT versions etc.). > And for GNU, it's kinda a language abuse. I try to not forgot GNU > when I talk about Linux. GNU is not liked here ;)