Guy Letourneau wrote: > I am using Ubuntu Intrepid. I am a user and not a coder. > I also live out in slow-speed, ex-urban Oregon. > > Lately this past week I have been notified of several large patches; > 17MB, 10MB and today 4MB. I don't like stopping my other downloads every > other day. > > Generally I don't like patches because they feel to me like 'the > engineers turned in their homework late - after we had already shipped > the product.' > > SO: Which distros out there, in your experience, combine: > a) arguably modern functionality: good GUIs, drag-n-drop, plug-n-play > USB, decent driver availability, etc, and > b) Only need adjustments (downloads) about once every 6 - 14mo? More > seldom is better... > > - G > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > If it is only the time the large patches take to download with your present connection, you could make use of the clinic's broadband connection at Freegeek.
I think most of the distros have a stable version with very few patches. Mel _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
