>From what you say, I don't see myself<div>stampeding to install it. I guess other</div><div>questions might be whether a lot of people</div><div>use it on servers, and then whether that </div><div>would be better than one of the X-BSD</div>
<div>distributions. </div><div><br></div><div>I guess I should say that I don't make very</div><div>exotic use of Kubuntu, so it's stability is</div><div>adequate for what I do. I think you're</div><div>suggesting that the apps on Debian are</div>
<div>wanting in some cases.</div><div><br></div><div>Since for many it's the apps more than it</div><div>is the distribution, that would be of concern.</div><div>We are "Linux Users," meaning that probably</div>
<div>many distributions have a solid core package,</div><div>but what matters is the do-dads hung on</div><div>them, and how well those versions work.</div><div>The apps that people actually use, and in</div><div>some cases get paid to run and support, and</div>
<div>not to be confused with the OS and Linux</div><div>per se. </div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I wonder what percentage of this group<br>
> runs Debian?<br>
<br>
</div>I'm running it on my router. I was running it on my desktop, but WINE<br>
was in a sorry state. WoW worked, but with intermittent stability<br>
issues. WineHQ's recommended repos for Debian squeeze/sid were<br>
woefully out of date, and, as of a month or so ago, their IRC denizens<br>
had no word on when/whether they would be brought up to a recent<br>
release.<br>
<br>
Apart from WINE, I had no complaints with Debian/squeeze. Though the<br>
WINE issues led me to switch my desktop to Gentoo, which I'm happily<br>
enjoying again...<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Is it deemed enough more reliable or<br>
> bug free than Ubuntu releases to make<br>
> it worth having such infrequent releases?<br>
<br>
</div>Debian seems to be kicking this habit. This is their second release in<br>
two years, which is actually _more_ frequent than Ubuntu's LTS<br>
<div class="im">releases.<br>
<br>
> I mean, clearly that's the lore, but what<br>
> seems to be the street reality?<br>
> -- Bob<br>
<br>
</div>Debian seems to have disciplined themselves to an every-two-year<br>
release cycle. I don't know how long their security/support periods<br>
will be, so I don't know whether a given Debian release will outlive<br>
an Ubuntu LTS release for a given install-and-don't-tweak role.<br>
<br>
--<br>
:wq<br>
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