Craig White wrote:
I want something tested but not ancient. Neither disto provides that
except for the first few months after an RHEL cut. But I'm usually
happy with old kernel and server apps (except subversion and
dovecot...). It's generally just the desktop stuff that changes fast
enough to care about.
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the problem is and will always be the interdependence among the various
packages. While it may be convenient to look at things in a vacuum, they
simply don't work that way - one package update requires updates on
requisite packages which impacts something else down the line. The very
thing that makes you rich, makes you poor.
That's a possibility, but rarely the case except perhaps for the
Gnome/KDE environments themselves. Usually it is possible to build
current packages on older RHEL versions, but then you have to maintain
them yourself.
On Windows, software is self referenced so that there isn't the package
dependencies that you have with Linux. But that's also why each text
editor/word processor etc. doesn't have to include a dictionary on Linux
and why they all include a dictionary on Windows.
I'm not sure what you run under windows, but my email and word processor
share a dictionary and I believe they document the interface to it.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
