[ALUG] How do people here manage updates (or not)?

[(Ted Harding)]

On 05-Nov-07 21:12:57, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
> 
> Well all I can say to that is 
> ewwwww, glad I don't run Fedora..4 kernel versions in a few months !
> 
> I think I am happier sticking to a distro that applies security
> fixes to the existing kernel version rather than jumping versions
> whenever it feels like it, particularly if this is going to happen
> at the frequency you suggest.

Which distro are you using, Wayne? It looks as though it might
be Ubuntu.

Regarding the VMWare/virtualbox discussion:

I've been using an old VMWare for years (getting on for 10 now).
It has worked fine with win98 (though I managed to break its
bridged networking a while back when I switched my LAN from
192.168.0.* to 192.168.1.* because that's where my ADSL router
lives). I'd been wondering about installing an ungrade.

Recently I got a new laptop (yes, one of those Currys cheapos
but it's got a good spec and has worked very solidly so far)
with Vista on it. So I've been wondering what version of
Linux to put on it (my most recent to data being Red Hat 9
from 2003).

I came across virtualbox by accident, and after visiting the
website decided to give it a try (one can always zap it if
not satisfied).

I've found it to be excellent. Very simple to set up (in the
windows version at least), and just about "runs out of the box".
It links very nicely into the host hardware interfaces.

I've now set up 3 VMs. Each has a 20GB "virtual hard drive"
file on the 120GB "real hard drive" and gets 256MB of RAM
whe running.

I've installed (or tried to install) various Linux distributions,
and am enjoying the experience. I currently have Debian 4.0 (Etch),
Ubuntu 7.10, and Fedora 7. I've also had Slackware and Gentoo on.

Of the three, I seem to be getting most mileage out of Ubuntu.
I have difficulties with the Debian finding its repositories,
and Fedora (very recently installed, so maybe I have some
getting-used-to to do; though I expected it to be more like
Red Hat 9 than it turns out to be).

I'd be interested in anyone's comments!

best wishes to all,
Ted.

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