From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19862 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: new beta Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:32:59 +0200 Message-ID: <425EC56B.4080907@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113507069 28090 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2005 19:31:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 14 21:31:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMA2o-0000Ib-Qs for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:30:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2792512927; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:33:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11343-04-2; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:33:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B2A612923; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:33:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1A112923 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:33:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11343-04 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:33:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C741291D for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:32:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3EJWoX1019874 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:32:50 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 316A0134CA; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:11:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.54] (unknown [10.100.1.54]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A06C59CB0 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:11:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/744/Fri Mar 4 04:01:45 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19862 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19862 Johan Sandblom wrote: >... > Comparing the two, the debian testing distribution has never been less > than stable while gentoo testing is updated faster, but has given me trouble > at some points. > > Sorry for the noise if this is inappropriate information for this list, no problem; here i have been using suse for years; i am considering gentoo, but i'm not sure about it yet; suse only ships stable releases which is why updating pieces of the system is tricky; the problem is (as always) in the gui part; somehow the interfaces to the libs change (too) often. (one of the reasons for choosing suse is that it is very well equiped for european situations (modems, adsl, etc) and shipped with state of the art journaling filesystems like reiser as well as raid support; that time our webserver came with redhat ... well, that was a real pain, esp secutity updating (unless one paid); suse's updating is automatic and ok) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------