Debian, Sidux, Ubuntu, reference distributions for Rev

Bernard Devlin bdrunrev at gmail.com
Sat Apr 17 08:14:29 EDT 2010


I understand RunRev working with Ubuntu as "a standard".  However, I
think Peter makes some very good points concerning why Debian should
be the reference for getting things working.

I stopped my software update subscription for Rev some 6 months ago,
after about 7 years of continuous subscription.  When RunRev decide to
deliver a RevBrowser component for Linux, I'll start again.

Bernard

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Peter Alcibiades
<palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> The problem is, every six months we have a new Ubuntu.  Rather less often we
> have a new Fedora.  The old release is not being updated in the meantime
> (understandably), you are only getting security updates.  It is not a
> rolling release distro.
>
> So, if you say you have certified, which means tested, against your
> reference distro, and its Ubuntu, and you have tweaked it so everything
> works, OK, which Ubuntu?  Here are some dates:
>
> 8.04.................. .2008-04-24  (we are now on 8.04.4 I think)
> 8.10 ...................2008-10-30 (we now seem to be on 8.10.3)
> 9.10....................2009-10-29 (seems not to have had later versions)
>
> 10.04 is now in Beta so will be out shortly
>
> You cannot 'standardize on Ubuntu' or use it as a reference distro.  Its
> meaningless.  You have to specify a release.  The Ubuntus out there in the
> market are not one release, they are a mixed lot of generations and updates,
> and they are changing all the time.



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