Hello! I agree Rich, I've been a Slackware fan since about the same time that Tux got hired as a System Manager for a VM system someplace. And Paul? Please stop letting your broken autocorrect function change his last name to something else. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 8:52 PM Paul Flint <fl...@flint.com> wrote: > > Greetings Truth, > > We at BOSI have been on AEON for several months now, and I am liking what I > see. > > What I see is a framework to get around variable reuse... > > :^) > > Regards, > > Flint > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 8:30 AM Rick Troth <r...@casita.net> wrote: > > > On 8/26/24 2:13 PM, Mark Post wrote: > > >> My preference is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but Leap works "if I gotta". > > > > > > I don't know why you would want to do this to yourself. > > > Tumbleweed is not for the faint of heart, to say the least, and isn't > > > nearly as likely to still be functioning after an update as Leap. > > > > > > I've been a fan of SUSE for a long time. > > Skipping details of that (and "Linux is Linux" as far as I'm concerned), > > but I was using OpenSUSE Leap. > > THEN at some point I found myself stuck, could not upgrade, across > > certain Leap release boundaries. > > I was assured by one colleague, "that won't happen", but it did. > > Probably my own ignorance. > > Turned out, though, that Tumbleweed has never yet gotten me into that > > stuck space. (Not keen on "rolling release" otherwise.) > > > > I've had other distros and systems get "release stuck": 'apt' based and > > 'pkg' based, including several FreeBSD systems. > > In some cases, I don't care, because I compile the most sensitive > > packages myself. But the system as a whole kinda needs to work the way > > the vendor/distributor designed, so being unable to upgrade is a bad thing. > > > > I've been using Tumbleweed for at least three years now. Never gotten > > "release stuck". Consistently works well after an upgrade. And my > > home-built stuff works fine too. > > > > > > -- > > -- R; <>< This message was examined by eight cats to see that it did not insult their community. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
