On 05/11/2007, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:27:37AM +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
On 05/11/2007, Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:45:59AM +0000, Chris G wrote:
Is there a distribution which offers pretty close to latest versions of everything when it releases but then just maintains things with only security updates and such until the next release?
I believe that is the goal of most of the Enterprise versions out there...
But Slackware's been doing this for ages. Also, doesn't Ubuntu do this already?
Slackware tends not to offer 'near latest', for example as I said it didn't offer a 2.6 series kernel as its default kernel until Slackware 12.
True, but it has been 2.6-capable for a long long time and even had a 2.6 kernel ready and compiled in some of the later versions. All you need to do is not choose the default kernel... Slackware 12 is even better, newer KDE than the latest (at the time) Kubuntu. :)
What I've found frustrating with Ubuntu (well, Kubuntu really), is that when doing updates, there is very little information about what's been fixed. Adept just doesn't seem to list the security CVE codes. Maybe I've missed it and need better glasses. Don't know much about Fedora's update mechanisms.
You just do "yum update all" and it looks in the software repositories and updates everything that you have installed to the latest versions, kernel included. Alternatively you can update individual packages but there doesn't seem to be an "update just the things that really ought to be updated for security" option.
Lucky I don't run Fedora Core then :)
Srdjan