OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Howard Fosdick on Mon 22nd Oct 2012 04:51 UTC

Here's a topic guaranteed to start controversy. Which Linux distribution is best? It all depends on your criteria for judging. Even then the topic is highly subjective. Here are a few nominees for "best distro" in specific categories.

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RE: Comment by marcp

by drcouzelis on Mon 22nd Oct 2012 12:26 UTC in reply to "Comment by marcp"

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Arch is also cool, but it takes too much attention of the user. It makes you a constant tinkerer, and upgrades are in fact PITA, because it requires you to merge some *.pacnews everytime you got any change. Some things should be done automatically

The Arch Linux package manager only generates ".pacnew" files when the user has changed a system configuration file. I merge ".pacnew" files every one to three months. It takes less than five minutes to do.

What's the alternative? Should it be done automatically?

For example, if I edit my GRUB config (/etc/default/grub) and then the package manager updates GRUB, what should it do with the config file? Should it keep my changes (which might not work with the new version)? Should it use the new version (and destroy my changes)? Should it merge them and possibly have both problems? What does Debian do?

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