[LUGSB] suggest stable rolling distribution

[Jonathan Dahan]

mint is very nice, easier than ubuntu. Haven't used it in a while though, so
not sure how good mint 11 is...

- Jonathan

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Jan Kasiak <j.kasiak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chandra!
>
> I use ArchLinux, which is a rolling release, but I have mixed feelings
> about it. Packages are updated frequently (I could run a system update
> almost every day), and stuff rarely breaks, but ONLY if you do a full system
> update. If you update 1 package, pacman (the package manager), will NOT look
> at your remaining packages to resolve dependencies. This is an issue if you
> want to hold back onto an  older version, or just don't need to update
> everything....I'm not familiar with Mint Linux, but if it's Debian based and
> uses their amazing aptitude package manager, maybe they don't have this
> limitation.
>
> -Jan
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Chandra Sekhar Mallarapu <
> cmallarapu at cs.stonybrook.edu> wrote:
>
>>  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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