Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Paul wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 12:59:57 -0400 (EDT)
> Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> >
> > > Well if you use Ubuntu's LTS [long term support] OS you upgrade the
> > > OS every two years.  There is a lot of changes in LO over even a
> > > year's worth of time, let alone two.
> But packages in a repository get updated during those years, you don't
> just stay on the latest version at the time of the LTS release. At
> least, it works this way for other software, I'm rather certain that it
> does for LO too.
>
> > so sounds like you should look into a 'rolling release' like LMDE or
> > Linux Mint Debian Edition or Manjaro.
> My personal favourite rolling release distro is Arch Linux. It is
> simple and clean, but it is more work to set up. That extra work is
> part of the point of Arch: it keeps things clean and lean, and means
> that you get to know your system better.
>
> Paul
yeah, I forgot to mention Arch, the archbishop of rolling releases.

I've never tried it; not sure how much better I need to know my 
system.

plus I use the Trinity Desktop (TDE) which is a nice hold-over from 
KDE3 and I simply don't know if it can be set up in Arch or not. maybe 
will look into it when I have another spell of the romance of getting 
to know my system. in fact the one I'm writing from now is way overdue 
for an overhaul, way over.

F.

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