30 Jul
2009
30 Jul
'09
7:04 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:22:24PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Ken
Restivo<ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
It's pretty common among servers and sysadmins to leave machines in place for a long
time and not want to touch them, but I think the more on-topic point might be that it
accounts for pretty near 0% of *music* systems. Linux audio stuff moves fast, and works
better with rolling releases, so the model used by AVLinux and the other audio-specific
distros is more appropriate for what we're trying to do with them.
-ken
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:10:28AM -0700, Mark
Knecht wrote:
Not even a new kernel?
Anyway, I didn't mean it doesn't happen, because it does. You are an
example. However I doubt that sort of usage model accounts for even 1%
of the machines in use, but maybe I'm wrong?
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:
> 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 gets further and further out of date over the next year or two, I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...