Summary: Which Linux distribution is stable yet up-to-date

[E.S. Rosenberg]

As mentioned before, Fedora is very stable and has very regular updates.
I also like Ubuntu a lot and since I also don't like Unity I use the
Ubuntu flavour with my favourite DE (After all there's Ubuntu,
Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Lubuntu etc. and after install you can
actually install the other flavours too).

I started on Debian Testing (actually all Debian flavours, along long
time ago) but moved to Ubuntu because I like to on the one hand be
relatively bleeding edge but on the other hand have 'stable' periods
and I think a half year release cycle hits that spot very nicely also
I felt like the ubuntu guys made more of an effort to give me a good
experience as a whole whereas Debian at the time felt much more like a
collection of software which didn't necessarily fit together well.

These things may very well have changed by now but I still think that
Ubuntu with it 'being pinned' for a half a year is preferable over a
rolling release like Debian/Testing though of course it all depends on
your needs and wants.

I just don't get the "I don't like Unity so Ubuntu is not an option"
that's saying "I don't like [DE] and therefore [distro] is not an
option" even though I don't think there is any distro that prevents
you from installing other DEs...

Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו

2015-12-05 10:51 GMT+02:00 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com>:
> Thanks for the tip, Steve!
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 13:32:20 +0200
>> Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Sorry for being unclear, but by "unusable state" I meant that one can
>> > no longer upgrade the system it using "pacman -Syu" (or whatever the
>> > command is) because it gives errors. The system itself works fine but
>> > will run outdated software applications (and often ones with known
>> > security vulnerabilities).
>>
>> I've had this happen several times with Manjaro (and therefore I assume
>> it would happen with Arch also). All the cases of which I'm aware are
>> solveable like this:
>>
>> pacman -Syu --ignore badpkgname
>>
>> The preceding allows the rest of your upgrade to go through. Report the
>> problem, and in the near future the bad program will be fixed and you
>> can upgrade the formerly bad package.
>>
>> It's really unfortunate that, without --ignore, pacman sees fit to go
>> through the entire the entire upgrade, perhaps a half hour, and then
>> tell you there's one bad package and upgrade nothing. Fortunately, in
>> the time I spent with Manjaro, I saw only two or three cases in which a
>> package refused to install and took the whole pacman -Syu with it.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
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