Juha Manninen wrote:
On 4/16/13, Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote:
Closer to home... the FPC and Lazarus versions in Ubuntu, Debian etc
repositories are always out of date - often 1-2 release behind. Now with
Lazarus's shorter release cycle, that issue is even worse.
Yes, this is a real problem.
Sometimes you must download and install packages outside the repo or
compile from source.
I must try Slackware again. I remember its author was dying for some
disease few years ago and the whole future of Slackware was uncertain.
Apparently he recovered. Good.
That I didn't know, and I'm sure we all wish him well.
WITHOUT WANTING THIS TO BECOME A DISTRO WAR: I've got reservations.
Debian's automatic upgrades can be a blessing where they e.g.
automatically install a security patch, but at the same time I've twice
had systems that were broken by an upgrade (in one case because it left
X incompatible with the kernel, and in the other because it removed
firmware from the kernel because the Debian managers- bless 'em- had
decided that the copyright was restrictive).
Also it's obviously worth considering that Debian runs on many more
platforms than Slackware, and from a support aspect it's far easier to
get people onto a broadly-ported distro than to have a hodge-podge with
different package naming conventions etc.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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