DFS <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> yttrx wrote:
>> DFS <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> yttrx wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is this version faster?
>>>> Is this version more stable?
>>>> Will this version run software that I need, that my current version
>>>> won't?
>>>>
>>>> Of course, the answer to each of these at the moment is a resounding
>>>> NO.
>>>>
>>>> Upgrading windows is for suckers.
>>>
>>> Those are important concerns, but after 5 years of XP I think
>>> curiosity or "it's something new, the latest and greatest" will
>>> drive a lot of upgrades.
>>
>> Very true. Admittedly, I install each new version of Vista that I
>> get in the mail from Microsoft, just to see. There's something to be
>> said for glitter-fetish, but that said, my copies of Vista are
>> included in the package I get for being a partner, so I figure I
>> might as well.
>
> I take it you're not too impressed w/ Vista (did you get RC1?)
>
I did get RC1 very recently yes, installed and played a bit. Prey
runs well.
Its not that im not impressed with it, its certainly got some polish
that OSX has been sporting for quite a while now, and is going a
pretty long way to catch up in the looks department to both OSX and
Linux. So that's good.
It seems just as stable as XP, though some operations are a little
boggy, but I think that's probably just my weird configuration.
All in all, theres no reason for me to convert my work laptop to
Vista any time soon---I use it exclusively for Office and Putty-ssh
sessions. Maybe if I had a really beefy game machine I'd just built
I'd stick it on that for shits and giggles.
>>
>> True as well. I'm running Edgy, and I have a daily cron that updates
>> against the cutting edge repositories, everything but the
>> kernel--which I install by hand, and only when necessary.
>
> Wouldn't twice or three times a day be better? Or do they commit code to
> those repos only once a day?
>
I do it at very specific times, just in case something that gets
installed breaks something that's running at that moment. For example,
I've noticed that xchat and its environs gets uninstalled every time
I do a dist-upgrade (every two days). There's also a bit of trouble
with keeping some python modules around through apt-get upgrades.
But it IS a development version, and thus has its issues--which I'm
happy to report are fewer by the day.
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