Hi there,
Nick Rout wrote:
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.
I've relaxed about security in my time with linux...I went 6 months with *no firewall* when I first got online with mandrake 9.0 in 2001, and I can assume that I didn't get infected in that whole time (2 hours plus daily for six months!). iptables and guarddog do the trick for me now. Not one security website with online testing has managed to get my PC to even acknowledge my machine exists online...meanwhile how many minutes does an unpatched XP machine take before its compromised? :-)
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.
I managed to get Mandrake 10/KDE 3.2 running on a P133 laptop with 48MB RAM...once the machine booted (insert lengthy cuppa here!) it was OK until the mouse or keyboard were touched... :-)
Most of the updates in going from Mandrake 10.0 -> 10.1 I want I've already done using plf and contrib, there were only 3 or 4 I can think of and Gimp 2 was the biggest...no point in upgrading the whole thing when only 3 or 4 things I *need* to actually upgrade...
-- Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand.
