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GNU/Linux provides choice. There is CentOS 6.x with security updates and 'point releases' with refreshed apps until 2017 at least. Gnome 2 based. There are ot

GNU/Linux provides choice. There is CentOS 6.x with security updates and 'point releases' with refreshed apps until 2017 at least. Gnome 2 based. There are other window managers as well if you need more recent base libraries for your work.

swah 15y ago
That are those alternatives, and I's rooting for linux, but t until you don't have to think about changing your window manager it can't win. Also, since I deploy Ubuntu I would like to work on Ubuntu (apt-get).
- andyking 15y ago
  Ubuntu 10.04 is still there, and still great. I'm still using it on my home and work machines--Gnome 2-based, PPAs and backports to update any apps that are a bit tired, and the whole thing's really stable. I'm not sure what I'll do when support runs out for it, though. I'm kind of holding out that they'll announce another two years of desktop support!
  - keithpeter 15y ago
    If you are using ppas and backports, the security update situation gets complex anyway. People have been trying to pin down the situation for Gnome Shell packages on 12.04, looks like not 5 years because they are 'Universe' packages. The 10.04 server packages, therefore the base, have 5 years of support, so I guess you could simply risk carrying on with 10.04 after the EOL for the desktop? Maybe not for the work machine.
- rbanffy 15y ago
  > but t until you don't have to think about changing your window manager it can't win. What is the value of "win" in the above sentence? Because for me it's much more useful than either Windows or OSX for development. It won me for package management and for being very similar to the actual deployment environment. Even changing the desktop environment is easy - an "apt-get install" does the trick. I don't care about achieving desktop dominance - the desktop is going the way of the dodo for most people and for everything that's doesn't sit on a desk or has an Apple logo, Linux is the dominant OS. I'm at home now and there are 9 machines running Linux (phones, e-readers, tablet, router, modem, notebooks) and 5 that don't (Macs, iPod and iPhone).
  - swah 15y ago
    Sure, me too. Without the graphical part, Ubuntu/Debian is perfect, since several years. win = "Microsoft and OSX should really step up their OSes otherwise Ubuntu is gonna leave them behind" like that guy said.
    - downx3 15y ago
      Right. I don't think it's a stupid aim to have. All you need to do is make an OS, that is stupidly easy to use... I still see people flounder over windows. I put Salix with a bare amount of apps on an older family member's computer - and I think it's pretty elementary - but they still run into a few issues. I think it's more user friendly though than Windows XP - so that's a plus point.
  - downx3 15y ago
    Sounds like you are in a sea of technology! Nice point though.

swah 15y ago

That are those alternatives, and I's rooting for linux, but t until you don't have to think about changing your window manager it can't win. Also, since I deploy Ubuntu I would like to work on Ubuntu (apt-get).

andyking 15y ago
Ubuntu 10.04 is still there, and still great. I'm still using it on my home and work machines--Gnome 2-based, PPAs and backports to update any apps that are a bit tired, and the whole thing's really stable. I'm not sure what I'll do when support runs out for it, though. I'm kind of holding out that they'll announce another two years of desktop support!
- keithpeter 15y ago
  If you are using ppas and backports, the security update situation gets complex anyway. People have been trying to pin down the situation for Gnome Shell packages on 12.04, looks like not 5 years because they are 'Universe' packages. The 10.04 server packages, therefore the base, have 5 years of support, so I guess you could simply risk carrying on with 10.04 after the EOL for the desktop? Maybe not for the work machine.
rbanffy 15y ago
> but t until you don't have to think about changing your window manager it can't win. What is the value of "win" in the above sentence? Because for me it's much more useful than either Windows or OSX for development. It won me for package management and for being very similar to the actual deployment environment. Even changing the desktop environment is easy - an "apt-get install" does the trick. I don't care about achieving desktop dominance - the desktop is going the way of the dodo for most people and for everything that's doesn't sit on a desk or has an Apple logo, Linux is the dominant OS. I'm at home now and there are 9 machines running Linux (phones, e-readers, tablet, router, modem, notebooks) and 5 that don't (Macs, iPod and iPhone).
- swah 15y ago
  Sure, me too. Without the graphical part, Ubuntu/Debian is perfect, since several years. win = "Microsoft and OSX should really step up their OSes otherwise Ubuntu is gonna leave them behind" like that guy said.
  - downx3 15y ago
    Right. I don't think it's a stupid aim to have. All you need to do is make an OS, that is stupidly easy to use... I still see people flounder over windows. I put Salix with a bare amount of apps on an older family member's computer - and I think it's pretty elementary - but they still run into a few issues. I think it's more user friendly though than Windows XP - so that's a plus point.
- downx3 15y ago
  Sounds like you are in a sea of technology! Nice point though.