Re: [orca-list] Questions about Distributions

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

I've been happy running Ubuntu STS at work and Debian testing at home. I 
work at a university so Ubuntu's policy of pushing out a release every 6 
months works well for me and my whole department. At home I run Debian 
testing which is essentially a rolling release. There have been times 
when an update broke some things. For example, for a while, the sound 
volume seemed to change randomly. Eventually, the problem went away as 
mysteriously as it had come. I've had a lot of minor problems but I have 
never had anything really serious in 20 years of running Debian testing 
on my home machine.



On 3/6/20 8:07 AM, Devin Prater via orca-list wrote:
> Hi all. I have some questions about distributions.
>
> First, is Slint a rolling release? Slint sounds great, but as the recent discussion of Debian and Mate 1.24 
> shows, more static releases may be more stable, but also, older releases mean less accessible releases at 
> times. I want to be as near the edge as possible, to have the best accessibility as possible, without running 
> beta software, well maybe Orca master.
>
> Second, does Fedora Mate have Mate 1.24 yet? I have not found any concrete answers to this when Googling.
>
> Third, I have just ordered a Raspberry Pi 4. Since Stormux is beta quality, or less, I do not want to 
> experiment with such beta quality of an entire operating system, for now. So, which is more supported: 
> Talking Arch, or Tarch?
>
> Thanks all for any answers to these questions. I know we probably get a lot of these anyway, but Linux 
> accessibility, I admit, changes even throughout one year, so do the needs of an operating system and its 
> Desktop Environment.
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