[Lilux-help] Slackware upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1 (Ubuntu)

[Serge Marelli]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 10:00 +0100, Patrick Useldinger wrote:
> Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> 
> > The current stable is about to be replaced (woody -> sarge), sarge
> > is what I'm currently using on several desktops. It's quite recent,
> > it's quite stable, but still does move a bit (lots of stuff to
> > download when updating).
> 
> One of my criteria was regular updates on CD; Debain fails that. For my 
> criteria, you might want to have a look at 
> http://www.homepages.lu/pu/Distros.html.

AFAIK, the main reason why "stable" is so slow to evolve and often
somewhat outdated is that they want Stable to be stable on _every
supported platform_ (!!) that means a lot of different hardware.

I'd suggest you take a look at Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/).
Ubuntu is a Debian based distro which has chosen to limit the number of
platforms to three : x86, PPC and AMD/Intel 64. 
They release as soon as the Debian packages are stable _for these
platforms_ not waiting for other platforms such as m68k and so forth.
>From what I've seen they release 2 - 4 times a year. And it's a CD
release and includes also a live CD.

For those interested, I obtained a batch of CDs (5-10 Cds for each
platform - mostly through Lionel) and those are to be distributed
amongst LiLux members.  Lionel sent an e-mail a while back about this
and asked me to deliver the CDs to those people who had been interested,
but I don't know who they are.


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