[xubuntu-users] 2014 Rolling release?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:13:42 +0100, Ralf Mardorf  
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:00:59 +0100, James Freer  
> <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Ralf Mardorf
>> <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 11:31 +0000, James Freer wrote:
>>>> Seems Centos is only stable for their own repo which is for servers
>>>
>>> I never used it, quiet possible that you're right, since it's based on
>>> RHEL. I suspect that Fedora is the averaged desktop distro, the
>>> competitor for Ubuntu, that has to do with Red Hat. Fedora for sure is
>>> more used by developers and known universities, than Ubuntu is. There
>>> might be a reason for this ;).
>>
>> Ralf
>>> I don't like package management based on RPM, even DEB IMO isn't the
>>> best package management. The best for my taste is pacman. But this is
>>> only my taste and for sure unimportant for users who never will build a
>>> package.
>>
>> I'm just looking at the KISS distros, Slackware, Arch etc. Currently
>> running SalineOS on my spare machine. I'm just trying to assess the
>> different package management system.... seems really good and the
>> distros seem stable.
>>
>> james
>
> Hi James,
>
> I don't know the current state of Arch. I temporarily dropped it, when  
> they switched from init to systemd. I prefer Ubuntu Studio LTS with Xfce  
> at the moment. I never heard anything bad about pacman. I like pacman  
> very much. Arch at least was stable, before they switched to systemd.  
> I'm subscribed to the list, but ignore most emails, however, it seems to  
> be that Arch is stable again.
>
> I'll stay with Ubuntu LTS, always will take a look at non-LTS and I plan  
> to install Debian and Arch again. I usually maintain two different Linux  
> installs on my machine, but I have more installed, just to take a look  
> at them. IMO it's impossible to maintain more than two or three  
> installs. But I always will have two installs that fit to my needs.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf

PS: Apropos KISS, today somebody from the Debian mailing list send this  
off-list to me:
http://www.pappp.net/?p=969