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Ubuntu Linux 5.10 Colony 1 Released
linuxbeta writes "The first development release of Ubuntu Linux 5.10, code name "Breezy Badger", is now available for testing. Colony CD 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Breezy development cycle, as images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Breezy. Screenshots are available. If you're interested in following changes as we further develop Breezy, have a look at the breezy-changes list. Bug reports should go here." (This comes in, of course, as I'm installing Hoary on my iBook.)
hoary hedgehog froze in april, security fixes from firefox 1.0.4 have been back ported to 1.0.2. (the only problem is that update.mozilla.org tell you that you need to upgrade, but with a poke in about:config you can fix that.)
if you avoid doing dist-upgrade every other night, sid is actually pretty stable. With the introduction of "experimental" as the bleeding-edge branch, packages landed in sid are pretty much safe for everyday use. Heck, I even run KDE 3.4 from the experimental packages, and only the Kaffeine multimedia player (a 0.6 application, still very young) is crashing every once in a while. I only upgrade applications for security reasons (e.g. Firefox 1.0.4, already in Sid), don't usually do mass-upgrades ,and I'm absolutely fine :)
-- Let's go Viridian.
I have to aggree. Knoppix and its derivations tend to be rife with installation problems. I honestly think Mepis is the only Knoppix Clone that comes close to Ubuntu, and many Ubuntu users that I know that dont use Kubuntu, use Mepis instead.
Alternately , Knoppix depends largely on debian's repositories. Id take Ubuntu over that in a heartbeat, Canaonical and Ubuntu support their own packages specifically compiled for Ubuntu itself. While the lag in packages could be annoying to some, it doesnt bother me a whole lot.
"God of Rock, thank you for this chance to kick ass. "
That's one thing that bugs me. I went from Knoppix in April or so (long story; my router was broken and I didn't want to run my Win2K machine on a naked cable connection) to a point where I decided I wanted a HD install.
Everywhere I looked I saw Mepis recommended. Installed Mepis, *loved* it until I found out I couldn't get KDE 3.4 without some tricky repository stuff. Tried that, worked okay, but I realised this would happen again next time KDE updated... so I installed Kubuntu.
Now Kubuntu's version of FF 1.0.4 is incompatible with update.mozilla.org, and a few random apt packages and other programs seem to show a Gnome bias, and Debian packages are spotty at best on Ubuntu. Both seem to have their packages they're behind on.
Is there some distro out there as easy to upgrade as Debian/Ubuntu but actually has updated stuff all around with no shady repository adding?