Distro recommendation

[Geoffrey Mendelson]

On 11/19/2017 11:15 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
>   + *buntu has the LTS long-release cycles and the standard 6 month
> cycle, updating from version to version tends to be painless

The problem with Ubuntu's LTS, is as it gets older, they only do 
security updates, so it really is no longer useful. Eventually it gets 
to the point that the particular package you want to install manually 
won't go because it depends upon many libraries that are newer than what 
you have.

Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel