[Novalug] Ubuntu LTS Versions

jerry w jerrywone@gmail.com
Fri May 16 05:12:28 EDT 2014


So, if it works, don't run it?

Boring, as kids and developers / unemployed say

We like living dangerously, it reminds us we are alive ( and what is broken
to put our servers out on the front line...)

Debian is your dad's os
( I see tshirts, but I'm psychic ; )

Idk of a lot of fixes Ubuntu does to Debian packages, back in the day
Debian was the hardcore system to run, if you could get it to run (amd64
when newish timeframe), so in a way I run Debian, just Ubuntu flavor...

Now when was the last year I ran rh...

/troll


Anyone running Ubuntu tablet?



On Friday, May 16, 2014, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:

> He's kinda trolling here so idk why you re'd. And yes, in fact most of
> what Ubuntu has added is Unity and the like - a quick search finds
> this with Cononical not even mentioned:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/google-and-samsung-soar-into-list-of-top-10-linux-contributors/
>
> I don't think there's been a single bug effecting a Debian package
> that didn't also effect Ubuntu.
>
> Ubuntu is better for companies because there's someone to sue if
> something goes wrong that Cononical should've seen and I guess there's
> support (but I don't know anyone who buys it). The packages are
> generally slightly behind Debian unstable (which I guess means someone
> reviews them and makes sure they don't crash too hard - maybe).
>
> But yeah, dude was just trolling and as is common with most trolling was
> wrong.
>
> PS - just for completeness, I'll say that RHEL seems to have even
> older packages than Debian stable - I can't hate on Redhat too much -
> I like the company, but that point irritates me. Ie, you have to go
> back years to develop against libs in RHEL6.5.
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:54 AM,  <covici@ccs.covici.com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > Why do you say that -- they seem very similar, with ubuntu sometimes too
> > far towards the bleeding edge, but Debian too far behind the edge.
> >
> > Derek LaHousse <dlahouss@mtu.edu <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >> Mid-May?  I think you might be wrong there.  LTS releases are supposed
> >> to be on a 5 year schedule, so 10.04 still has a year of service, and
> >> 12.04 has 3 years left.
> >>
> >> On another note, Ubuntu is crap and Debian rox.
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Roger W. Broseus <rogerb@bronord.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >> > Ver. 12.04 is going the way of XP and will be unsuported mid-May.
> Ver. 14.04
> >> > is out but I'm waiting for a "point release" (of Xubuntu) to let
> others work
> >> > out the bugs. 14.04.1 -- sort of like Service Pack 1 for a Window$
> release.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
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> >> >     Web Site: www.bronord.com
> >> >
> >> > On 05/15/2014 06:28 PM, novalug-request@calypso.tux.org<javascript:;>wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Message: 1
> >> > Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 12:55:50 -0400
> >> > From: Ed James <edward.james@gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> >> > Subject: Re: [Novalug] Knott's Installation Problems
> >> > Cc: NOVALUG <novalug@calypso.tux.org <javascript:;>>
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> CAAiUpcPBdeOEXUMGQgwvy9ALJXNrWw++KZL7Y+4ZcBCorDzASQ@mail.gmail.com<javascript:;>
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> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> >> >
> >> > True.  My initial post-to-be had 12.04 LTS, then I remembered that I
> >> > started from 11.10 and upgraded to 12.04.  I edited the post, but
> didn't
> >> > quite get it right.  I hope the important part of the message, that
> the
> >> > installer has a slight flaw and there's a work-around didn't get lost.
> >> >
> >> > Ed James
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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