[LUGSB] suggest stable rolling distribution

Sat May 28 07:46:51 EDT 2011

Hello

Has anyone used the Linux Mint Debian edition? It seems to be based off Debian testing, and is a rolling distribution, which means I wont have to do a upgrade/re-install every 6 months or a year. Do you think it will be stable enough? I have till now used Debian stable in a virtual machine, not the testing version. But a virtual machine has annoying performance related quirks, which is forcing me to switch to installing Linux onto the hard disk.

I want my system to be quite stable and also admit I am too lazy to take the extra effort of making the hardware work in Debian, especially the wireless, and just want stuff to work out of the box. Hence, looking at Linux Mint Debian. I dont consider Ubuntu, Fedora to be stable enough.

Can you also suggest some other distribution which is stable, doesn't need re-installs every few months, and everything just works out of the box? I have looked at Gentoo, but decided against it after realising that I will have to compile most of what is going to be installed.

Thanks
Chandra

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