same problems existed in edgy...Half the time I end up looking for third
party repos to upgrade software which may sometimes be unreliable and more
than often create problems in dist-upgrades then.. :(

On the other hand, looked a bit at arch linux and looks interesting...still
don't know if it fits me well since I really dont have the time to fight my
linux to make it work

M

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Perhaps that's because this is a LTS version. They tend to be more
> conservative in such versions, unlike "Edgy" eft for instance.
>
> 2008/5/28 Anton Xuereb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> You know me jean, didn't mind using the command line 3 years ago when we
>> were at 6th form let alone now..
>>
>> I'm not sure about this...ubuntu makes you kinda lazy in a way i guess..
>>
>> M
>>
>>
>>
>> Jean : Arch Linux ftw! Well, I wouldn't give it to noobs, but as you're
>> not a
>> noob, I'd definitely suggest it to you. It's usable (well, otherwise I
>> wouldn't be typing this), and there are no such things as feature
>> freeze, it's a rolling release. Some things haven't updated yet, like
>> KDE 4, but it's a piece of cake to compile it as a package.
>> Customisable? You just have to edit 1 file. Wiki's excellent, community
>> is excellent. Packages are quite fine too. There isn't a synaptic like
>> utility though..but controlling it from the command line shouldn't be a
>> problem. Oh,and suspend and hibernate work.. They never did in Ubuntu.
>> Plus, the good things of Ubuntu, like the patches they add to cairo for
>> better font rendering, are also easily obtainable.
>>
>> Sorry for the offtopicness, though.
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