[SLL] Sun Now Leaning Towards Ubuntu...

[Glenn Stone]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:10:50AM -0700, Mark Foster wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Because these days the underlying packaging system really doesn't matter
>> much.  It's the tools on top of them that you care about, and guess
>> what, you get apt on rpm systems too (no yum for deb though, pitty).

Dunno why you'd want to do that; DebUbuntu has a perfectly adequate package
manager alreddie.  And (finally!) with cryptographic verification even.

>> Ubuntu
>> has some /serious/ longevity problems when they start to try and
>> actually do the long term support stuff.
>>   
> How so? I've been running Dapper (6.06 LTS) since it came out and it has  
> been very solid.

Have to echo this.  I dropped Dapper on my personal workstation right after
it came out, and it's been the proverbial reinforced masonry outbuilding...
the only reason I'm upgrading to Hardy Real Soon Now is drivers, both wi-fi
and printer... 

-- Glenn