30 Jul
2009
30 Jul
'09
5:48 p.m.
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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
-ken
Ken Restivo wrote:
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...
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gets further and further out of date over the next year or two, I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