[Ilugc] Distro release cycle
- From: mohan43u@xxxxxxxxx (Mohan R)
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:19:52 +0530
On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 07:59 +0530, A. Mani wrote:
Sabayon releases often, but it follows a rolling release model and
that is always better.
Arch Linux again follows a rolling release model.
PCLinuxOS, Mageia need an year.
Thats one hell of a reason I'm on sabayon. In my openion,
1) If you want a stable production environment, go for a distro who give
support.(eg: RHEL,CenOS,Debian-stable,Ubuntu-LTS)
2) If you want a stable desktop environment with latest packages, go for
any distro who do rolling release. You install once, forget about
re-installing. all you need is do a package update once in a month. Its
perfectly suitable for developers who don't want to reinstall their
hard-to-find-library-packages again-and-again. Besides, it gives you a
feel that there is no disturbance in your main focus. (eg: arch,
sabayon, gentoo, Debian-testing, LMDE)
3) For newbies or sysadmins who want to explore, go for cutting-edge
distros. (eg: ubuntu,fedora,Debian-unstable,LFS)
Thanks,
Mohan R
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