Re: [SLUG] distro longevity

From: Logan Tygart (thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us)
Date: Thu Dec 11 2008 - 18:53:29 EST


On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:23:44PM -0500, Eben King wrote:
> 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?

Debian stable has inordinate longivity. apt-get dist-upgrade
doesn't require reinstalling, just a reboot to use a new kernel.

Logan

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