On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 10:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> During the past hour I've discovered half a dozen more programs that >> were uninstalled, and a couple more where the executable will no >> longer launch. Dist-upgrades suck rocks. >Perhaps a distribution with a longer release cycle but a more visible >approach to upgrades would suit your needs better. The time you invest >in learning more details will be saved by not having to go back and >repair breaks you did not know happened. > >I recall your using Fedora in the past; it might be worth another look by >you. Fedora's release cycle is the same as the *buntus. I used Fedora for a couple of years and eventually gave up on it. One time I did a dist-upgrade and, without so much as a 'by your leave' it switched me to an LVM, and worse - there were no tools yet to resize a partition. It was constantly doing stuff like that without telling me. And your support period is only one year; no LTS releases. Now, I understand that it is funded by Red Hat and they use it as a test bed for stuff to be included in the next version of Red Hat, so pushing the user to the bleeding edge is understandable. I can forgive them, but I can't tolerate it. Just now I came back to my upgraded Ubuntu 14.04.1 and discovered that the screen was locked. I remember setting it never to lock the screen a long time ago, and it never did until just now. And that's not an uninstalled package or missing dependency; that's a user preference. What made them think I wouldn't mind if they changed my preferences? Yes, I can fix it, but grrrr. Even before this I decided that at the next Clinic I am going to install Slackware on my old Lenovo T61. The computer works fine; I just replaced it because it was over five years old and I was worried that some critical component might fail soon. It will be a good test bed for me to poke around with Slackware for a bit. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
