[SLUG] distro longevity

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Dec 10 2008 - 21:23:44 EST


I went to add some packages (abcde, for one) to my laptop, which runs Ubuntu
6.something (how do I check?), only to find out that us.archive.ubuntu.com
no longer carries that distro. This is highly un-good, as I hate
reinstalling, and try to do it as seldom as possible. I'm not married to
Ubuntu or a Debian-derived distro. What distro has a halfway decent package
system, and is likely to be around a LONG time? Alternatively, is there
another repository I could use?

-- 
-eben     QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP     royalty.mine.nu:81
Your pretended fear lest error might step in is like the man who
would keep all wine out of the country lest men should be drunk.
                                               -- Oliver Cromwell
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