[LAU] AVLinux (Was: a bunch of stuff)

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On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:47:18 -0700
Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:10:28AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Atte Andre Jensen<atte.jensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ken Restivo wrote:
> > >
> > >> AVLinux does look very tasty. I'm happy with Lenny for now, but as it
> > >> gets further and further out of date over the next year or two, I
> > >> might consider trying something different.
> > >
> > > Did you read this:
> > >
> > > http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729
> > >
> > > Apparently debian has now settled on a two year release cycle. Sounds
> > > bad if you're used to ubuntu's 6 months, but in debian land this is
> > > really something.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Atte
> > >
> > 
> > It's hard for me to imagine how they come up with a number that's
> > higher than the average lifetime of a PC these days... ;-)
> > 
> > Still running the same Gentoo 64-bit install I did in 2004. emerge
> > -DuN @world once a week and it's always up to date...
> > 
> 
> I have a Debian system out on the internuts (a SPARC32 machine), that hasn't been touched since I installed it sometime in 2001, other than for regular updates.
> 
> Finally going to decommission it soon.

I hope you will give it a proper respectful ceremony

... sacrificing 3 windows users should do :)

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk