[ubuntu-in] Rolling distributions and rolling away from Ubuntu

[Onkar Shinde]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjaybhangar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Narendra Diwate
> <narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
>><snip />
>>
>> The other 2 are vacant. Ubuntu will stay for
>> a while till I get the nerve to move to a Rolling release. Any advice what
>> should i be trying considering the past few posts that you may have gone
>> thru. Obviously it should fit in the 7GB.
>>
>
> I used Sidux for some time and found it to be stable and quite good.
> Have a friend who's used it as his primary os for couple years now
> very happy with it..
> I think may need a decent internet connection to be able to do regular
> updates though.

Gentoo and Archlinux are probably the two most popular rolling
distros. While gentoo is 'compile almost everything from source'
(hence based on source packages) archlinux is based on binary
packages.

I have been using Debian testing for some time now on my laptop and I
haven't faced any major issue. Debian testing is a semi-rolling distro
because even that goes into freeze at least once every 2 years.


Onkar
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