[ale] Ubuntu recommendations

[Michael Trausch]

I've done the unthinkable... and installed Fedora 15 on my systems. At
least, for the time being. Not sure if I will stick with it or not. The
package manager seems to take forever to do things, and it has a daemon
component that seems to hang up somewhat regularly. After a boot I have to
kill it (and it seems to restart automatically when needed) in order to do
things like install software.

Oh, the things I would do, if only I had the money to hire a team of five to
ten people...

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On May 12, 2011 9:11 AM, "The Don Lachlan" <ale-at-ale.org@
unpopularminds.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:30:29PM -0400, Collin Pruitt wrote:
>> After release, LTS releases are only updated with critical security
>> updates or bug fixes. LTS is mostly for consumers that require long-term
>> stability, as LTS releases are supported for a far longer amount of time
>> than regular releases, and LTS releases are rarely used to release major
>> changes to the distro for the sake of stability.
>
> LTS is mainly for "enterprise" installs, where you want something that
won't
> change and is supported for years (3yr for desktop, 5yr for server).
>
>> On 5/11/2011 4:21 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>> > Personally, I would go with the latest release (11.04 right now). I
>> > would only ever install Ubuntu on a desktop, so I don't know what
>> > benefit the LTS version would give me.
>
> I hate latest and greatest. HATE. I avoid latest and greatest like the
> plague, since that's very often what it feels like.
>
> With Ubuntu, I've been recommending (and occassionally using) the previous
> release. If 11.04 is out, use 10.10. Ubuntu is updated for 2yrs, so
staying
> one release back is no biggie. It's a trade-off of stability for less
shiny.
>
> I've been using Ubuntu since it first came out and their latest releases
> have always been THE SUCK for me. Waiting 6mos lets them shake out the
bugs
> and I get a much more useable system.
>
> Moreover, Ubuntu 11.04 has the new Unity interface and, whether it's a
good
> change or a bad change, it's a very significant change that I would avoid
> until it's had a bit of production time.
>
> -L
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