Posted by Dave on 10/10/2009, 9:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Already have it (I think)"
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I like rolling release!! If only repositories like Cooker or Testing were more reliable in the long run. I tried PureOS over a three-day period; it's based on debian testing: It worked wonderfully, and seemed like a pretty nice distro, until I did the update.
First, wicd lost touch with DBus (which takes out the internet connection), then the system couldn't migrate to the proper sequence of boot-up steps, and suddenly all I had was a console login. The developer worked with me on it but he was getting into recompiling the kernel and similar things, so I gave up and deleted PureOS. All this time I'm thinking in the back of my head that Antix seems to be the only distro which can live on debian Testing repos; all the others I've tried fail soon or late. AntiCapitalista, the developer of Antix, has done something right and I hope he knows what it is and keeps doing it :^>. But it's strange to me that I can do the same updates to the same testing repos in Antix and then another distro - and Antix lives and the other one dies.
And PCLinuxOS also has succeeded as a viable rolling release distro. But, so far as I know yet, only those two. That's why I'm happy to see Mandriva go through this rolling period successfully, although I bet when they go final with 2010, their cooker repos will get wild again. 
In faith, Dave
Viva Texas
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