[Wylug-discuss] [WYLUG-DISCUSS] Stuck with Ubuntu?

[Mike Goodman]

On 28 March 2012 19:10, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On 28/03/12 18:17, Mike Goodman wrote:
>> At last I've got round to buying a 64 bit box, which gives me the
>> impetus to swap distros. Ubuntu fails to keep up to date with new
>> versions of apps in its nominally LTS releases and I don't want
>> the hassle of an (non-LTS) upgrade every 6 months. So from earlier
>> discussions on the list, I decided to try CentOS-6.2. But my new
>> machine has a Gigabyte mobo and the CentOS compilers haven't got
>> around to adding EFI El Torito support to the mkisofs command yet.
>> I'm not pretending to understand what that means in its entirety
>> but I most definitely understand this implication - CentOS will not
>> install on my shiny new machine. Not wanting to install Ubuntu, for
>> which the live CD does work, I've reverted to the old 32 bit box
>> for now.
>>
>> Going back to earlier discussions of Ubuntu unhappiness, including
>> what I understood to be a mass migration from the distro, have any
>> of you found good alternatives with reasonable lifespans between
>> upgrades? Or do I have to wait for v6.3? Seems the developers are
>> aware of the problem but I have no idea when 6.3, which will
>> contain the cure, will be released.
>>
>> TIA. Mike
>>
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> Mike - you might want to ask the Scientific Linux guys if their distro
> supports your need (that's the RHEL clone used at CERN).  FWIW I left
> CentOS recently for SL, as CentOS were very slow in getting security
> updates out.
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> Anne
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Thanks, Anne. Certainly looks good from the info available on the
site. Can't see where to ask the question but for the time and effort
involved it may be as well to simply download and burn off a live CD
at the weekend and see what transpires. I'll post the results here.