[Lvlug] Recommendations on a More Suitable Distro

[High Mobley]

Have another look at the BSDs then.  They've come a long way in terms
of desktop GUIs.  NetBSD and FreeBSD in particular are strong on
desktops.

High Mobley
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Patrick Bartek <bartek047 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Sun, 3/21/10, High Mobley <high.mobley at qbangsolutions.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not aware of any (free) Linux
>> with 5-year support cycles.  You
>
> Neither am I, but I can dream.  CentOS (and probably Scientific Linux, too) have free support (bug and security) for about 4 years.
>
>> might consider RHEL.  I would expect that they provide
>> long term
>> support.  Debian is the best candidate I know of if
>> you want long term
>> support on a Linux distro.  In fact, if you start with
>> a version of
>> TESTING that has been available for 9 to 12 months, you can
>> squeeze
>> almost 5 years of support out of that Debian release as it
>> progresses
>> to STABLE.  And Debian's TESTING version has always
>> been as solid as
>> all the other distros' stable releases for me.
>
> I've used Debian in the past (Sarge & Etch), but only as Stable.  Never considered Testing.  Figured it was beta-ware, at best.  Official support is 3 years for Stable releases.  Not too bad.
>
>> You might also want to consider some of the BSD
>> variants.  I haven't
>> worked with them closely for a while, but I suspect that
>> FreeBSD is
>> more likely to have long term support for their releases
>> than OpenBSD
>> or NetBSD.
>
> Have only thought of BSD for server use--no GUI--which is its forte.  Never considered it for general use, desktop computing.  But it's been several years since I looked.
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
> B
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