On Monday 02 May 2011, Bruce Hill elucidated thus:
> Seriously, it's pretty arrogant when someone refers to their distro's
> release name and expect you to know what they're talking about. And
> how many Linux distros are there now? And how many different release
> names would that make?
Possibly, but according to Distro Watch:
1 Ubuntu 2229
2 Mint 1966
3 Fedora 1487
4 Debian 1414
5 openSUSE 1294
6 Arch 916
7 Sabayon 843
8 PCLinuxOS 839
9 Puppy 804
10 CentOS 748
11 Mandriva 710
12 Slackware 665
13 Ultimate 579
14 Chakra 569
15 FreeBSD 514
I could probably know what someone was talking about *most* of the time
if someone mentioned a release name from that list. I work daily in
Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and RHEL, so that may contribute to it. But if
you've been in the Linux world for 10+ years (and most people here have
way more than that), you probably keep up with names and releases, even
if you don't use them (e.g. I don't have any Fedora boxes).
> Anyway, perhaps someone will fix borken Ubuntu ... and when he fixes
> his problem or updates a package Ubuntu will do like Windoze ...
> REBOOT!
Only time Ubuntu's updater asks for a reboot is when a kernel gets
swapped out. Maybe when you upgrade libc...don't remember on that.
Don't remember the message when you upgrade X.
j
-- Joshua Kugler Part-Time System Admin/Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com - Fairbanks, AK PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A --------- To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.Received on Mon May 2 15:57:50 2011
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Mon May 02 2011 - 15:57:50 AKDT