Best of both worlds ?

TobiSGD · 05-29-2014, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

my guess is, bill gates had some similarly "revolutionary" ideas in 1980, and we all know how that went: these days windows is trying more and more to re-implement almost historic features of unix-like operating systems, that were no doubt then dropped by young billy because he thought them a hindrance.

Windows was built on top of DOS, which was not invented by Microsoft and not influenced by UNIX, but by CP/M. So your guess is wrong.

pan64 · 05-29-2014, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by aspras

what I have in mind is running something as stable as Debian but also be able to install the latest versions of software without a hassle.

I think that is simply impossible: either stable or the latest. But both? How?

aspras · 05-29-2014, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by pan64

I think that is simply impossible: either stable or the latest. But both? How?

As discussed in previous replies, it's a package manager that isolates its packages and their dependencies from the rest of the operating system , you can install it on any distribution so you can run your Debian stable and have multiple versions of any software installed that do not interfere with each other.

s.verma · 06-03-2014, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by aspras

I have always been in a dilemma when having to choose a desktop distribution. While I want my operating system to be stable and not have things break out of the blue due to an update I also want to have the latest versions of certain software installed such as GIMP and Blender to name a couple.
Currently the distribution that comes closest to this is Manjaro ..

Does Manjaro allows the base/core packages like kernel/glibc/systemd etc. to be locked in version like Debian and allow updating application softwares?