Arch Linux

aglarond

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From: Texas, USA

Registered: 2008-11-20

Posts: 129

Re: Question about Arch vs Ubuntu

I guess I'm not understanding very well, but if Ubuntu isn't a rolling release, wouldn't you have long stretches of stability, once everything is set up and running, before a new release comes out?

Ideally, yes. It's the reason I use Debian on servers where I don't mind long periods between upgrades. I just patch for security and I'm good to go.

However, my experiences on the desktop with Ubuntu/Kubuntu haven't been terribly bad, but have required so much work to get the software I wanted on the version I wanted, I might as well have been running Gentoo. Also, the number of changes they make to many of the software packages tend to mess things up. I also wasn't happy with the speed at which many of the Ubuntu specific bugs were fixed by development. I've submitted working patches that sat for months before finally being committed. I just got tired of it.

My wife is running Kubuntu with KDE 4.2 right now and it has some odd stability and application issues that I don't have with the same setup in Arch. I'll see how things are when I upgrade her to 9.04. If they're not better I may just kick her over to Arch and teach her to use Pacman.

-mS