<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Ramnarayan.K <<a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 4/26/10, Ritesh Sinha <<a href="mailto:sinha.k.ritesh@gmail.com">sinha.k.ritesh@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> > Arch is the best (well documented) rolling release. No other beginner > friendly ones that I am aware of. But you can look at it this way, > once you've spent the effort in setting it up the first time you don't > really have to do much to keep it running. You should also be aware > that you will usually have bleeding edge software and compatibility > might break from time to time (this is anecdotal of course, YMMV). </div>So what kind of net connection is required for Arch - from what i can gather a pretty reliable and fat pipe seems to be the order of the day. was realy curious what rolling release meant - so checked the wiki <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_release" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_release</a> "A rolling release is typically implemented using small and frequent updates. However, simply having updates does not automatically mean that a piece of software is using a rolling release cycle; to qualify as a rolling release, the philosophy of developers must be to work with one code branch, as opposed to discrete versions. Updates are typically delivered to users using a package manager and a software repository accessed through the internet." seems to me that this is something that requires constant access to the net and also not really meant for systems that require stability. The latter because there is no way such solling release can account for individual systems setup and cutomized (or can it) The advantage i see is that instead of lump sum one gets small updates (maybe) and it means that after the initial install , maybe, one can survive on a small bandwidth. There won't be patches, anything recitified will automatically appear in the main rolling release Also it probably means there is never going to be any excitement / hype about the latest release. Once you install a rolling release all one can say is "aha my system is the same as it was 10 years ago" - thats something actually. </blockquote><div> on the bright side, no need to reinstall with every release(Of course Upgrade option is there, but I say "Upgrade is fairly usless to 60% of the users", reinstallation will give a different feel than Upgrade") Now I feel should give a try to Arch and Gentoo. Ubuntu is becoming more of Suse I think, more commercialization than Democracy... </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> regards ram -- <div><div></div><div class="h5">ubuntu-in mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>