[Techtalk] scientific linux

[Jennifer]

Thank you everyone that has replied. I haven't had time to look into any of
these yet, but it is really helpful to learn what distro everyone went to.

Also, I don't know if I'm brave enough to go to a rolling release yet,
haha.

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Kathryn Andersen <kat_lists at katspace.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 09:46:39PM -0400, Jennifer wrote:
> > I am doing some soul searching after using Ubuntu for a few years so I'm
> > looking around at other distros. Unity and Gnome 3 broke my brain.
>
> Yeah, I abandoned the Ubuntu ship when they removed a few of my
> essential programs like workrave.
>
> I'm currently using ArchBang, which is basically Arch with a different
> installer. The advantages of Arch are
> (a) large number of packages
> (b) hybrid binary/source system; the official repo is binary, but the
> AUR (Arch User Repository) is source-based.
> (c) rolling-release system
> (d) good documentation on the distro wiki and forums
>
> Disadvantages:
> (a) Packages from the AUR are often not well-maintained; use with
> caution.
> (b) The community is less newbie-friendly than Ubuntu.
> (c) rolling-release system can mean things break (though not as badly as
> they break with Gentoo).
>
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