Who's your bleeding edge?

[dmeyer]

Alrighty, so it's been three whole days since KDE 4.11 was released. We got it in Kubuntu, fscking-a. Arch? Nope. openSUSE Tumbleweed? Nope. Slackers

Tumbleweed maybe not but normal 12.3 had it the day after it was tagged (4 days before official released) on public repos. Unfortunately, they were slow to publicly announce it on/after release day (it showed up in the forums) but was only announced on a blog like three days after release.

Futhermore, AlienBob had packages out on release day. Overall I think the three fastest distros are probably mainline openSUSE, Kubuntu and Slackware. Kubuntu is by far the best when it comes with announcing and providing upgrade instructions. Plus, unlike openSUSE, you don't have to delete three repos and add three new ones every time there is a version bump.

[SteveRiley]

It is interesting to see that some packages arrive in Tumbleweed after they arrive in the normal repos.

[dmeyer]

It is interesting to see that some packages arrive in Tumbleweed after they arrive in the normal repos.

It is odd but remember, Tumbleweed is supposed to be a highly stable rolling release, so it is a little more conservative than some other distros like Arch. At most it's a week or two max of extra waiting which is still better than you could hope for with 95% of distros.

[jpenguin]

manjaro ~]$ uname -a
Linux manjaro 3.10.11-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep 8 12:03:44 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
manjaro ~]$ dolphin --version
Qt: 4.8.5
KDE Development Platform: 4.11.00
Dolphin: 4.11.00

[sumski]

It is interesting to see that some packages arrive in Tumbleweed after they arrive in the normal repos.

The flow is as follows for e.g. KDE packages


openSUSE:Tumbleweed <- KDE:Release:4xy (built for current, and previous stable) <- KDEistro:Factory (source) -> openSUSE:Factory (for future releases)

[bsniadajewski]

It is odd but remember, Tumbleweed is supposed to be a highly stable rolling release, so it is a little more conservative than some other distros like Arch. At most it's a week or two max of extra waiting which is still better than you could hope for with 95% of distros.

I wonder if something along the lines of Tumbleweed could be set up for ubuntu-based distroes. That is, have it maybe for packages in at least the universe/multiverse repos.

[SteveRiley]

I wonder if something along the lines of Tumbleweed could be set up for ubuntu-based distroes. That is, have it maybe for packages in at least the universe/multiverse repos.

See here: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...l=1#post335579

It appears the archives now have a set of devel pockets that point to the current development release. Switching your /etc/apt/sources.list to

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ devel main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ devel main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ devel-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ devel-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu devel partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu devel partner

If these stick around and get repointed to T-Series when it opens, then it would seem we have something approaching a rolling *buntu.

-proposed is where testing currently takes place, so enabling that is likely to be troublesome.

What shall we call it? Tumbluntu? Ubuntweed? LOL, I know which one I prefer

[bsniadajewski]

Rollbuntu?

[oshunluvr]

RollBuntuWeed?

[jpenguin]

Apt-buntu?

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I'm liking manjaro, octapi is a nice pacman GUI

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[dmeyer]

Apt-buntu?

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I'm liking manjaro, octapi is a nice pacman GUI

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Pacman GUI? What heresy is this!!! Manjaro is a good distro with a nice community. I just always felt that if I am going to do Manjaro then I might as well just do Arch.

[jpenguin]

Pacman GUI? What heresy is this!!! Manjaro is a good distro with a nice community. I just always felt that if I am going to do Manjaro then I might as well just do Arch.

XD

I find myself using the camand-line more-and-more to install packages, I'm actually considering trying arch. After all, I had to use the CLI installer to get the partitioning scheme I wanted; I use the aur a lot too.

[dequire]

XD

I find myself using the camand-line more-and-more to install packages, I'm actually considering trying arch. After all, I had to use the CLI installer to get the partitioning scheme I wanted; I use the aur a lot too.

Or there's Chakra if you prefer Arch + KDE...

http://www.chakra-project.org/

[dmeyer]

Or there's Chakra if you prefer Arch + KDE...

http://www.chakra-project.org/

Chakra is no longer binary compatible with Arch so you lose the massive package repos.

[dequire]

Chakra is no longer binary compatible with Arch so you lose the massive package repos.

I was unaware of this. Seems like a silly move to me if that's the case. Having said that, like most here (I suspect), I prefer Debian-based distros for innumerable reasons.