Comments on: The pros and cons of a rolling release http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-rolling-release/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: txwikinger http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-rolling-release/#comment-46532 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:26:34 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-rolling-release/#comment-46532 Ubuntu is primarily a distro that should be easy to use for anybody. Rolling releases for a distro make sense for developers, and enthusiasts with lots of knowledge, but not for such a general purpose distro. Therefore Ubuntu will not change to rolling releases but rather allow upstream projects to have rolling releases for some of their applications. See also http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/rolling-releases-make-no-sense-linux-distribution-ubuntu

]]> By: poulpillusion http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-rolling-release/#comment-42986 Mon, 03 May 2010 07:09:12 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-rolling-release/#comment-42986 Did you ever try Sidux ?

]]> By: Tyler Rusk http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-rolling-release/#comment-35912 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:46:53 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-rolling-release/#comment-35912 awesome stuff. I like the rolling release of PCLinuxOS, but I really like the community of Ubuntu. Plus, there are the excitements of the next release every six months.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-rolling-release/#comment-1104 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:31:49 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-rolling-release/#comment-1104 Did you install the i810 driver package before you fired up X? It might be having a conniption if it’s using a completely wrong driver.

I also get a lot of strange xorg.conf behavior, depending on the machine I use. Sometimes X -configure works best for me, sometimes it’s xorgconfig and sometimes I have to download hwd and run hwd -xa to get it working. You might try one of those methods instead.

]]> By: mrisi http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-rolling-release/#comment-1102 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:52:15 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-rolling-release/#comment-1102 I REALLY wanna like Arch. Really.

I’ve been trying to install the darned thing for 3 days now! Specs of machine in question: 566mHz Celeron, 256mb RAM, 7gb HD. Not a high flier by any means, but certainly suitable for a minimal arch install. Trying to get xorg to install is the hugest pain in the butt of my Linux experiences (aside from getting my bcm4311 network card to work on this laptop of mine).

When I try to load xorg, it gives me the error that the driver “i810″ could not be loaded, or was not found. If I run xorgconfig, and then move the new file over the /etc/X11/xorg.conf (replacing it), it boots xorg but the refresh rate or something must be screwy, because the picture’s a mess. Any ideas?

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