On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:52:22 -0500 bill-auger <[email protected]> wrote:
> the only distinguishing information about the FSDG distros that is > essential to users for deciding which distro to choose, is whether it > follows a rolling vs stable release schedule, and whether it is a > read-only, "live" distro or one that should be installed - ive > suggested to add those two characteristics to the FSDG distros > web-page with brief explanations what they imply; but that could be > accomplished entirely objectively What is "rolling" and what is "LTS"?. > the FSDG distros web-page is only intended to showcase the distros - i > dont think anyone wants to make recommendations on that page - it has > been suggested to make a wiki page on libreplanet comparing the > detailed characteristics of the FSDG distros - perhaps user reviews > could go on that page > > for 99% of people though, the correct decision is: "i should use an > LTS distro", and the explanation of "LTS vs rolling" should say: > "(LTS is the recommended option for most people)"; so then, the > recommended distros would be gnewsense, dragora, trisquel, ututo, and > hyperbola (and perhpas in time, uruk) - among those, trisquel, ututo, > and uruk are essentially the same distro (a liberated ubuntu16), most > people will (FWIW) consider gnewsense and dragora to be too old, and > all the other distros are best suited to power-users or niche > use-cases; so it is not a difficult decision to make today - before > hyperbola is endorsed, the only real choice for most people is, > between those derived from ubuntu16 > - on that note, it is good to see hyperbola and liberty-BSD coming in, > expanding the variety of stable, general-purpose options > If Dragora is considered to be too old -- I do not know who is the "most people". However, a new release has been made on September, the 3.0-alpha2 -- which is up to date. If for some reason the distro is getting too old, you or other people could try to get involved, help.
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