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Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com)
Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com)
Posted Nov 15, 2006 5:44 UTC (Wed) by cleary (guest, #41669)In reply to: Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com) by bronson
Parent article: Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com)
I've found Kanotix : http://www.kanotix.com : meets these requirements (at least for me).
Essentially it stabilises debian sid by applying it's own patches and fixes to the official sid release as packages. It's current, easy to maintain and has a great support network :)
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Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com)
Posted Nov 16, 2006 1:54 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Well you pretty much described Ubuntu also. (take Sid, patch the kernel, update desktop packages)
Me? I prefer Debian to just track Debian testing or unstable.
Testing is new enough for me. More stable then my experiances with Ubuntu or most other Linux distros have seemed to indicate.
Ubuntu Developer Summit report: X.org improvements, driver controversy, and bling (Linux.com)
Posted Nov 17, 2006 21:44 UTC (Fri) by h2 (guest, #27965) [Link]
<<< Well you pretty much described Ubuntu also. >>>
No, ubuntu freezes the sid pool to create a stabilized distro then works from that within each release version. Kanotix actually works live, in real time, with sid. You're not working with some subset of sid frozen, you are working directly in sid. I believe that Kanotix is pretty much the only distro do this, aside from of course Debian Sid itself.
Kanotix has done very well at this process, and often has had fixes out before they hit sid. Sid is unstable, and it takes work to keep desktops current and running. Kanotix makes that process easier.
As for sid being behind, sometimes in some cases, yes it's a few weeks behind as some major upgrade, say Xorg 7.0, 7.1, is tested in experimental, but usually it's pretty current. For example, I had kde 3.5.5 as my desktop before kde 3.5.5 was announced here on lwn.net. And often Kanotix has the newest kernels released more or less the same day they are announced here.
Aside from the ongoing issues Debian itself is having with Mozilla products, sid is pretty current. Filezilla linux 3.0 beta, for example, was in sid before it hit any other distro's package management system.