Re: [LAU] AVLinux (Was: a bunch of stuff)

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:22:24PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Ken Restivo<ken@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:10:28AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Atte Andre Jensen<atte.jensen@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> >> > Ken Restivo wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> AVLinux does look very tasty. I'm happy with Lenny for now, but as it
> >> >> gets further and further out of date over the next year or two, I
> >> >> might consider trying something different.
> >> >
> >> > Did you read this:
> >> >
> >> > http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729
> >> >
> >> > Apparently debian has now settled on a two year release cycle. Sounds
> >> > bad if you're used to ubuntu's 6 months, but in debian land this is
> >> > really something.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Atte
> >> >
> >>
> >> It's hard for me to imagine how they come up with a number that's
> >> higher than the average lifetime of a PC these days... ;-)
> >>
> >> Still running the same Gentoo 64-bit install I did in 2004. emerge
> >> -DuN @world once a week and it's always up to date...
> >>
> >
> > I have a Debian system out on the internuts (a SPARC32 machine), that hasn't been touched since I installed it sometime in 2001, other than for regular updates.
> >
> > Finally going to decommission it soon.
> >
> > -ken
> >
> Not even a new kernel?
>
> Anyway, I didn't mean it doesn't happen, because it does. You are an
> example. However I doubt that sort of usage model accounts for even 1%
> of the machines in use, but maybe I'm wrong?
>

It's pretty common among servers and sysadmins to leave machines in place for a long time and not want to touch them, but I think the more on-topic point might be that it accounts for pretty near 0% of *music* systems. Linux audio stuff moves fast, and works better with rolling releases, so the model used by AVLinux and the other audio-specific distros is more appropriate for what we're trying to do with them.

-ken
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