A conniption is a display of bad temper. If you have a conniption fit you are throwing a tantrum.
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Richmond Mathewson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/02/2010 21:21, Peter Alcibiades wrote: >> >> There's a nice Slackware based educational distribution from Zenwalk. >> Very >> worth a look. The Slack base makes it stable and fast. It is Xfce based >> rather than Gnome. >> >> The other one to consider is Skolelinux, aka Debian-EDU. This is Debian >> Stable based. People don't realize that the main benefit of Debian is >> that >> its a rolling distro, and so super easy to keep up to date. > > I'm going to have a conniption fit (hey, do any Americans out there actually > know what 'conniption' > means? I don't) because my PC hasn't been updated since this morning. > >> The way it >> works is, the distribution starts out in Experimental, then moves on a two >> year or so cycle through Unstable, Testing to Stable. At which point it >> really is Stable. >> >> You can find links and reviews on Distrowatch. >> > > http://distrowatch.com/ > >> What you are getting from Ubuntu is a 6 month release cycle of a >> collection >> of bits out of Debian Experimental. This largely negates the benefits of >> being an apt distribution in terms of upgrade ease, and it also negates >> the >> potential benefits for stability of being Debian based. As the cries of >> grief and rage, which are heard regularly every six months from the >> upgraders, go to show! >> > > Only if you are obsessed with continual upgrades . . . :) > > My current machines in my school have been running on Ubuntu 5.10 since . . > . err > October 2005 (!!!!!) without any internet connexion, upgrade or hitch doing > what > I want them to do. > > Actually, having played around with more Linux distros than I can count on > my fingers and toes > together my conclusions are fairly crude for people in my position: > > Stick to Debian derivatives and after that it really is nothing more than a > matter of taste. > I like GNU and XFCE; KDE is too Windowzy for my liking; however I do run > some KDE apps > via Gnome - doesn't really seem problematic. RunRev 4 and Metacard 4 both > run superbly > on all 3 window managers; and, I would suppose, on Fluxbox, Enlightenment > and so on. > > I chose Ubuntu because it was the first Debian derivative I came upon that > seemed well > documented and easy to install; but, hey, I'm the chap who when he arrived > in the USA in > 1993 had to buy a computer and, having only previous experience of > main-frames, BBCs > and Archimedes, picked a Macintosh over a Windows because his maternal > grandfather's > name was McIntosh (well, not a bad choice, in the end), so don't expect > complete logic > from me. > >> You want six month release cycles (but why would you?) go to Mandriva. > > Why bother with release cycles or upgrades? Find a system you like and be > done with it. > > The only reason for eternal upgared is if you are developing for an > eternally upgrading market. > >> You >> will sacrifice stability, but you do get something, ease of use combined >> with being bang up to date. You want boring practical useful and stable, >> and never having to think about upgrades again, go to Debian Stable. >> >> I wouldn't put Ubuntu on any machine I was going to have to support. >> > > Funny that, as I support and maintain Ubuntu on a fair number of lawyers' > and architects' machines round and about in Plovdiv - a monthly visit; a cup > of > coffee, an hour's "fiddle" with the machine; > > sudo apt-get update > > set any updates running and tell them to leave the machine alone until > 'tomorrow' > > Bob's your uncle! > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
