[GRLUG] I vote for the warehouse

[Topher]

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

Firefox 4 should be out quite soon now.  How long will it be before it's 
in Ubuntu?  Is 10.10 an LTS?  I haven't paid attention.  If it is, then it 
won't get firefox 4 for 18 months.  Firefox 5 might be out by then.

> 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.

For me Arch is the perfect balance between the ease of Ubuntu and the 
power of Gentoo.  It's low level and everything on the planet is in the 
repos.  But the package manager is awesome enough that I don't have to 
think if I don't want to.  It easily rivals apt.

And no new version every 6 months.  :)

Yay distro wars!

topher

> 
> 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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