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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 gets further and further out of date over the next year or two, I 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
