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No, you relly dont want any of the rolling release distros. How much updates they get varies, but its not that uncommon for me to get 700MB worth of updates a week with debian sid/aptosid.
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It did break, but I managed to get it to a stage where it can boot but very often (4/5) of boots the touchpad does not work, so another reason was to see if another distro would be able to fix it. I did not mark that as solved as I am likely to still get a new netbook.
Unlikely that a different distro would fix it, that sounds like you've got multipule hardware problems. Which is generally a sign that the system is on its way out.
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While I agree with this, I just ran Ubuntu 10.10 on a USB stick, which is a relatively old OS, and it had 400MB of updates from the start. So a 3 year old OS may have more.
Ubuntu (non-LTS releases) is probably one fo the worst for that sort of thing, its due to the way that ubuntu make the non-LTS releases and dont put up updated .isos for them either.
If you look at things like debian, or the even the ubuntu LTS releases, they tend to get point updtaes over time. Look at the debian stable .iso page (this is CD .iso the torrent d/l page BTW)-
The .iso was released on 08-october-2011. It will have all the updates up to 08-10-2011 (well, for the packages on the CD you d/l anyway).
Debian stable 'squeeze' 6.0 was released on 06/02/2011, so that is 6 months worth of updates that can be avoided. BTW, even though squeeze was released about the same time as ubuntu 11.04, even if you used the 6.0 .iso it would need less updates than 11.04.
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It is not really that it is too slow, although it rather much is, but it drops quite often. I was trying to download a openSuSE GNOME iso, and it went from 150KB/s, then 50KB/s, then 5KB/s, then about half an hour at 400B/s, then went up. During quite a lot of it, the download was reporting 567 days for the download. If it was stable at 150KB/s, as you said, it would be okay. Another issue is that most places around where I live have the same issue with it, so an internet cafe would not be very good.
That still doesnt sound that bad to me...mind you I have d/led .isos on dialup (and not last century, it was within the last 3 years...)
As long as you use .torrents, the up/down speeds might get annoying but you wont have to worry about the .iso breaking.
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Ah, thanks for pointing this out. I may go with something like the Ratpoison distro (I cannot remember the full distro name, I think it was Slitaz).
:S
It was just a page back that you quoted snowpine who told you the name. Salix Ratpoison.
No, you relly dont want any of the rolling release distros. How much updates they get varies, but its not that uncommon for me to get 700MB worth of updates a week with debian sid/aptosid.
Yes, I know Arch gets daily updates, however this does not mean a user must update daily. With a slow connection the OP could update weekly, monthly, etc. connection speed permitting.
Furthermore Arch is a build-your-own system. If you install hundreds of apps, you will get hundreds of updates. But if you install a simple windows manager (these updates are negligible compared with Gnome/KDE) and a few carefully-selected applications, then your updates will be minimal.
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It was just a page back that you quoted snowpine who told you the name. Salix Ratpoison.
Not my sort of thing, too much work to save a few MB.
Ratpoison isn't (primarily) about saving a few MB but rather using the keyboard instead of the mouse. Users such as myself with repetitive-stress issues find this much-appreciated. For someone not interested in ditching the mouse, there is no compelling reason to choose Ratpoison (better off with openbox, fluxbox, awesome, etc).
Ratpoison isn't (primarily) about saving a few MB but rather using the keyboard instead of the mouse. Users such as myself with repetitive-stress issues find this much-appreciated. For someone not interested in ditching the mouse, there is no compelling reason to choose Ratpoison (better off with openbox, fluxbox, awesome, etc).
Salix, also has Fluxbox, LXDE, Xfce and KDE variants in addition to Ratpoison.
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