On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, ronan 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?
>>
> Ubuntu has the concept of LTS (long term support?). If you go to download
> Ubuntu desktop today, the current version is 8.10; but that version might
> only be supported until April 2009, when the next version comes out. If you
> want an LTS Ubuntu, the most recent version is 8.04 (April 2008), which they
> promise to support until 2011.
Thanks, I'll look into that.
> Some people might be so resistant to change that that isn't long enough,
> but for me, running a 3+ year-old Linux desktop is weird. :)
I dunno, I like to have a consistent interface. I figure the hardware
didn't change, why should the software? It's easier to upgrade the desktop,
so I'm correspondingly less resistant to software changes there.
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