Easiest Linux distro to upgrade GC with?

[Neil Williams]

On Friday 03 December 2004 10:26 pm, Ben Pracht wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm still using version 1.8.8 and I'm having problems upgrading because
> I'm on RH9.  What's the best Linux disttribution to use for ease of
> upgrade sake?

Debian. every time.

Nothing beats apt for upgrading packages.

> For some reason getting updates on RH for this and other 
> packages is a real pain.  I use Windows for everything except this
> program so all I  need is something that works.  Oh, and I'm married so
> I don't have hours to monkey around with device drivers, config files,
> etc so I'd really like something that "just works".

No pain, no gain. All the work with Debian is front-loaded. The installer is 
getting better all the time but setting up X seems to be the most common 
hiccough. 

Thereagain, I'm 100% biased.

Once installed, maintenance is zero, upgrades can be easily automated and it 
does just carry on running. The only time I ever stop these Debian boxes at 
home is when I want to upgrade the kernel. If someone could come up with a 
way of doing that without rebooting, I'd never have any downtime!

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