[H-GEN] Linux distributions

Thorne, Stephen stephen at thorne.id.au
Mon Aug 27 08:58:09 EDT 2012


On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Russell Stuart
<russell-humbug at stuart.id.au> wrote:
> Dare I say Debian wheezy (ie Debian testing)?
>
> Testing is more up to date the Ubuntu, and Debian has recently decided
> to move its default Desktop from Gnome to Xfce4 [1].  As a bonus if it
> works well, Wheezy will become Debian stable in due course.  So if what
> want is a rock solid laptop that just works for 3 years or so without
> any effort on your part, you will have it.

+1 for Debian. After ubuntu decided to throw a halfbaked unity out the
door instead of into the bin, I switched to Debian and haven't looked
back.

-1 for Arch, they have some very strange release practices, including
the 'make /usr/bin/python Python 3.1 and break every script on your
system' thing they did a while back.

I quite like Gnome3, but I once used xfce for a number of years, and
that's not awful either.

Stephen Thorne.



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