On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:54:13 +1300 Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have never understood why people want broadband for gentoo, but will > > happily install a binary distro that immediately wants 500M of updates > > and are happy with a modem. gentoo and al the sources for a pretty full > > install are avilable from copyleft (Dunedin) on one dvd. > > I have never fully understood why some choose to update essentially as > the code is typed! For me its about getting a stable working system, and > then just using it! The core mandrake 10.0 for me works 99% (few wee > issues), so I see no point updating unless something really major is > gonna knock my socks off with glee by doing so... :-) well some of it is security, although the ability to just weed out just the security updates is a real bonus (and debian excels here). but sometimes you need that new code when some vulnerabilty needs patching. Kernels are improving all the time, the 2.6 series is great and seems to just make more and more stuff work, thereby feeding my desire to buy more things to make work with it. hmmm maybe that is *not* a recommendation. The other point is keeping up I guess. I _like_ to have the latest kde. I am _loving_ xfce4- 4.2 beta, it may persuade me to kick the kde habit, certainly on my underpowered'ish laptop. as we all keep saying, its about choice. i choose to run my desktop at home not quite on the bleeding edge, more slightly grazed and a few feet back from the edge. You choose stability and keeping what you know. At least we can both make that choice, thanks to the Stallmans, Raymonds and Torvalds of this world. (to name but a few). Cheers. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
