On Jul 25, 2:02 pm, Jason Montoya <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is, though it looks like the last updates are from last August. It's up
> to 4.4.10 and the "classic" version 3 was also updated to 3.4.12. Whether
> it's "practical" all depends on what your needs are - personally I've found
> DSL good as a diagnostic Linux. For daily use I use a full-size distro
> (Fedora 11) to which I just switched from Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. Both
> Ubuntu and Fedora have the option to create a Live Flash version of
> themselves as well. I've also used Gentoo, which is truly a
> do-it-yourselfer's dream and installing it is a project in itself, but
> certainly a great way to learn Linux by jumping in with both feet first and
> you end up with a system absolutely customized to what your system has and
> what you want and nothing else. The basic installation leaves you pretty
> much with a kernel, a shell, a few basic system utilities, a network, and the
> Portage system which is similar to yum or apt-get except instead of
> downloading binaries, it
> downloads and compiles source, according to options you set in advance. And
> everything is configured through editing text files.
>
I'm pretty sure I want to stick with a LIVE CD distribution. I don't
need or want the hassle of creating partitions. Also don't need the
hassle of the OS getting corrupted at some point and needing to be
restored. Booting from a CD-ROM seems to me to be about the best
feature that linux provides (although it isn't particularly fast.) I
may even remove both of my hard drives. The live CDs also present a
great way to preserve a sense of anonynimity. I fail to see why my OS
needs to know who I am or keep track of any information about me (as
windows is so fond of doing.)
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