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

[Ken Restivo]

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 gets further and further out of date over the next year or two, I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.

-ken