From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 22:35:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED78B16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:35:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CE343D3F for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:35:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2BMZBNK061179; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:35:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2BMZBHa047981; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:35:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j2BMZBG8047980; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:35:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:35:11 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: RW Message-ID: <20050311223511.GD47688@thought.org> References: <20050311202539.GA47425@thought.org> <200503112050.22023.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503112050.22023.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no flames, please. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:35:14 -0000 On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:50:21PM +0000, RW wrote: > On Friday 11 March 2005 20:25, Gary Kline wrote: > > > a better flavor on Linux that I should consider? > > I've not tried it yet, but I like the look of: > > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ > > > It's based on Debian but aims to update several times a year instead of once > every several years. Also updates are done online rather that via a stack of > disks. > > Gentoo's good too, but it's relatively high maintainence. > Well, my druthers are havibg a click-and-everything-is-done Linux. (Then having webmin show me howto do most of the admin chores.) Be nice if I could buy a started CD of this new (*gasp*, umpteenth distro of Linux!) But I'm all for online updates. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix