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
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Guy Letourneau wrote:
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
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, 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.
Just a thought: have a friend or colleague with a high-speed connection
get the patches and burn them on a cdrom. He can mail you the disk and
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote:
Just a thought: have a friend or colleague with a high-speed connection
get the patches and burn them on a cdrom. He can mail you the disk and the
materials and postage will cost you less than the frustration of
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Guy Letourneau wrote:
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.'
I think we all feel your discomfort, but release early, release
often is so ingrained in
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.
I'm not sure if Ubuntu is different, ... You
could just ignore it until you have the time to update?
That is* one annoyance, the red 'zomG if you don't download your system
will be COMPROMISED' arrow does NOT let you ignore upgrades to software
you don't even use. I use Thunderbird but
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Guy Letourneau wrote:
If I get a Linux event going out here, you all would be more than welcome
to come on out!
Guy,
OK. Now drop the other shoe. Where is out here?
Rich
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Guy,
My hunch is that you'll have fewer non-security package updates
running something with a longer release cycle, such as Debian stable,
CentOS/RHEL, or even Ubuntu LTS. These all have much longer release
cycles than vanilla Ubuntu.
-Heath
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Guy Letourneau
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:22:33 -0700 (PDT)
Joe Pruett j...@clean.q7.com dijo:
That is* one annoyance, the red 'zomG if you don't download your system
will be COMPROMISED' arrow does NOT let you ignore upgrades to software
you don't even use. I use Thunderbird but if I uncheck all the EUDORA
Guy Letourneau wrote:
I'm not sure if Ubuntu is different, ... You
could just ignore it until you have the time to update?
That is* one annoyance, the red 'zomG if you don't download your system
will be COMPROMISED' arrow does NOT let you ignore upgrades to software
you don't even use.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:19, Guy Letourneau guy1...@opusnet.com wrote:
I'm not sure if Ubuntu is different, ... You
could just ignore it until you have the time to update?
That is* one annoyance, the red 'zomG if you don't download your system
will be COMPROMISED' arrow does NOT let you
Larry W wrote:
Ubuntu Breezy (also 2005)
Oops, sorry. Slackware 8 is much older than 2005.
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On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Larry W wrote:
Still this points to the less-automatic disadvantage because one has to
sign up to the list. Is it pointed out to the user during installation?
I've no idea. When I switched from Red Hat I subscribed to receive a set
of disks each time an upgrade was
There is a security mailing list that is low volume. I believe there
have been maybe 6 updates since the release of 12.2. Slackware doesn't
generally do kernel upgrades after the release which keeps downloads
low.
On 4/17/09, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009,
Rich Shepard wrote:
I've no idea. When I switched from Red Hat I subscribed to receive a
set of disks each time an upgrade was released. I don't recall
explicitly subscribing to an announce list, and I don't remember the
headers on the patch notification messages. What I like is that
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:26, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:
Of course, I'm a CLI guy so I much prefer having control over what's
installed and upgraded.
every distribution that i know of lets you do that. i don't use
ubuntu's gui, so i am manually checking for and installing
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