Fellow GNOME-loving brothers and sisters, I'm in a bit of a jam.

Been using Ubuntu (Hoary, and now Beezy packages) for a little while. I'm a bit disappointed with the update cycle. It's too long. PClinuxOS has deomstrated that you can do rolling updates from repositories while keeping things relatively stable.

So, I'm looking for a VERY GOOD alternative to Ubutnu. Ubuntu does an amazing job with GNOME 2.10, but I need an excellent alternative that also does a very good job with GNOME.

Any recommendations?

What I need:

- Has to do GNOME 2.10 VERY WELL.

- Has to use Synaptic as a frontend to apt-get

- Has to include a variety of core apps that are upgradeable through Synaptic:
OpenOffice
Rhythmbox
Evolution
Firefox
Gaim
GnomePPP
.. . . . and some others

- repositories have to be very extensive, and updated on a regular basis.

- Must also give access to core KDE apps (i.e., amaroK)

- Stability, reliability

- distro must have a FUTURE, must be good enough to stick around.

- Must come on a single CD, no more (single ISO)

- Should include the "Human" icons and window theme found in Ubuntu.


I know, it's asking for a lot, but I'm sure theres something out there that can fulfill this wishlist.

I'd really appreciate any help!

Looks to me as if you want Ubuntu. Alternatively, install Debian and then copy over the Ubuntu specific artwork manually.

Well, Ubuntu is great, but I'm turned off by a certain aspect of it.

I'm willing to let the artwork go. So, I'm looking for the next best thing to Ubuntu.

I find Ubuntu's package update cycles (and Debian's) too long.

Which version of Debian? Sid is pretty up to date.

I just want to avoid Debian. Also, as I understand, multimedia support is terrible in Fedora.

Mandrake can use apt as can SuSE, why do you need apt-get/synaptic? almost all distros have package management.

It's alright. I'm sticking with Ubuntu. So many other things I love about it. I just updated it to Breezy, at a very early time, and it works like a charm. I can wait until October until Breezy hits stable, I suppose.

Apologies for starting this obviously useless thread.

Maybe someone else can use it for a similar purpose since it's already here.

There is absolutely no problem with this thread. Debate and discussion is useful and I'm glad that it helped you to make this decision.

Well thank you! Kind of you to understand!