Random Thought....

[Freakish_05]

Good afternoon people.

A random thought just occurred to moi so I thought I'd put it to the floor for debate.

I've been a Linux user on and off for the last two years and have mainly had experience with Kubuntu and Gentoo. This has basically just been faffing around to see whats going on. However, I'm now trying to pick one of these distro's to replace windows on my laptop and desktop.

The main thing thats keeping me off Kubuntu atm is that I remember reading somewhere that each release of Kubuntu is only supported for 18 months. Where as Gentoo is a bleeding edge distro and after running emerge -uD world everything is instantly supported. This would effectively mean that I'd have to reinstall Kubuntu every 18 months, correct? I know that the Kubuntu package manager (apt-get) keeps all of the PACKAGES up to date, but what about the core O/S?

Cheers,
Freakish_05

 

[BillytheImpaler]

There is a distribution upgrade manager included with K/X/Ed/Ubuntu. You run it and it upgrades everything and brings you up to date with the current release version.

If you don't feel like doing that you could also install 6.06 LTS which is supported until 2011.

 

[Freakish_05]

There is a distribution upgrade manager included with K/X/Ed/Ubuntu. You run it and it upgrades everything and brings you up to date with the current release version.

If you don't feel like doing that you could also install 6.06 LTS which is supported until 2011.

Is there by jingo????

Any links to how this works mate?

Edit: NM, used Google

 

[gumbald]

Is there by jingo????

Any links to how this works mate?

Edit: NM, used Google

It's not perfect, but a fresh install is always required now and then, just cleans everything up.