Which OS for notebook

[Chad Perrin]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:42:40PM +0000, Michel Talon wrote:
> 
> I mean that the concept of maintaining a full set of binary packages 
> which has been verified by the distribution maintainers and remain
> usable for an extended period of time, combined with an effective
> binary upgrader (apt-get, aptitude), is light years ahead, for ease of
> use and convenience, to a rolling release style "bazar" like FreeBSD
> ports, combined with tools like portupgrade, which sort of work only 
> when you spend all your time running them daily, after having sacrificed
> a young virgin to the gods. I concede that the FreeBSD way allows to have 
> very up to date ports, and to be in control of compilation options and
> so on. Personnally i don't have much use for these benefits.

I don't have the kinds of problems you imply.  Portupgrade works great,
even if I don't touch it for a week or so, at least for me.  There are
benefits to a rolling release process, too:

    http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4150

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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