On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/26/10, Ritesh Sinha <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> Arch is the best (well documented) rolling release. No other beginner >> friendly ones that I am aware of. But you can look at it this way, >> once you've spent the effort in setting it up the first time you don't >> really have to do much to keep it running. You should also be aware >> that you will usually have bleeding edge software and compatibility >> might break from time to time (this is anecdotal of course, YMMV). > > So what kind of net connection is required for Arch - > > from what i can gather a pretty reliable and fat pipe seems to be the > order of the day.
Yes it does require quite a bit of bandwidth to install. > > was realy curious what rolling release meant - so checked the wiki > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_release > > "A rolling release is typically implemented using small and frequent > updates. However, simply having updates does not automatically mean > that a piece of software is using a rolling release cycle; to qualify > as a rolling release, the philosophy of developers must be to work > with one code branch, as opposed to discrete versions. Updates are > typically delivered to users using a package manager and a software > repository accessed through the internet." > > seems to me that this is something that requires constant access to > the net and also not really meant for systems that require stability. > The latter because there is no way such solling release can account > for individual systems setup and cutomized (or can it) > > The advantage i see is that instead of lump sum one gets small updates > (maybe) and it means that after the initial install , maybe, one can > survive on a small bandwidth. > > There won't be patches, anything recitified will automatically appear > in the main rolling release > > Also it probably means there is never going to be any excitement / > hype about the latest release. Once you install a rolling release all > one can say is "aha my system is the same as it was 10 years ago" - > thats something actually. > > > regards > ram > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- Sent using the magic of the interwebs. http://ritesh.posterous.com -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
