[GRLUG] I vote for the warehouse

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 04:16:36PM -0400, Topher wrote:
> >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.

Er...the "balance" between the "ease of Ubuntu" and the "power of
Gentoo" is rather like the "balance" between null and infinity.  ;-)

> And no new version every 6 months.  :)
> 
> Yay distro wars!

If we all ran Debian, the wars would end.
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john-thomas
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