[GRLUG] I vote for the warehouse

[Ben DeMott]

Exactly - they maintain support for any individual desktop release for at
LEAST 18 months
Which should be plenty...

Plus with Ubuntu you can get all of the random no one's ever heard of
packages and you have the whole community behind you. I don't have time to
hack all the time .. whats why I left Debian, and others.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 9/29/2010 3:10 PM, Topher wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Ben DeMott wrote:
>>
>>  Ubuntu Haters ... lol you guys are funny.
>>> Thank goodness for Ubuntu, now my mom can use it - and I don't have to
>>> reinstall windows every year for them.
>>>
>>
>> No, now you get to reinstall Linux every 6 months.  ;)  That's the main
>> reason I left Ubuntu.  A rolling release is a requirement for me now,
>> regardless of distro.  Mint Debian would be a great replacement for ubuntu
>> now that it's out.
>>
>> topher
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>      On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:53 PM, John-Thomas Richards
>>> <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
>>> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:39:44PM -0400, Marc Zuverink wrote:
>>> >> Warehouse, makes more sense, it is the relase of a new
>>>      distro(edition)
>>> >> people are gonna wanna install for shit and giggles, cant do
>>>      that at
>>> >> the pub.  My 2 sense, actually I only had only a half dollar,
>>>      so thats
>>> >> My .50 I guess
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > So what is the actual date, time, and location?  Ain't no way
>>>      I'm
>>> > installing Ubuntu but I'd love to be there.
>>> > --
>>> > john-thomas
>>>
>>> Location will be The Warehouse
>>> Time will be 7PM - 10PM
>>> Date is being voted on at http://www.doodle.com/e9ay7rwwdzyqqaqy
>>> (currently down for upgrades or something). I will announce the
>>> winning date on Thursday at noon.
>>>
>>> --
>>>  Ben Rousch
>>>  brousch at gmail.com
>>>  http://ishmilok.blogspot.com/
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>>  Just because the release comes out, you dont have to upgrade.  It is just
> available if you want it.  There will be a lucid-backports repo for really
> important stuff.
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