2010/4/26 Mallikarjun <[email protected]>: > > > 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. >> >> 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. > > on the bright side, no need to reinstall with every release(Of course > Upgrade option is there, but I say "Upgrade is fairly usless to 60% of the > users", reinstallation will give a different feel than Upgrade") > > Now I feel should give a try to Arch and Gentoo.
You should! It's a great learning experience. I learnt a lot about linux configuration from Gentoo. Arch is my second favourite distro, I use it for work where I require latest and greatest versions of software :). > > Ubuntu is becoming more of Suse I think, more commercialization than > Democracy... Ubuntu was never a democracy [1]. There was a great outcry about this. Personally I don't really care, if Ubuntu doesn't work for me I can always switch to something that does (or if I have the requisite skills, build one of my own). But why does the commercialization bother you? They still give us the source code and I think it's a wonderful way to provide services built around an awesome OS. [1] http://www.webupd8.org/2010/03/ubuntu-is-not-democratic.html >> >> >> regards >> ram >> >> -- >> ubuntu-in mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > > -- > 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
