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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’d consider CentOS only because I never tried it before… Maybe I’ll go that route first, with the understanding that the gnome desktop may be updated in the not too distant future.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This morning, I started the backup (clonezilla) process (fedora + windows partitions), once I’ve done that, I’ll feel more comfortable experimenting knowing I can fall back. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> -Rob</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:andrew1523@gmail.com">Andrew T. Stager</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, January 20, 2017 9:43 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:lilug@lists.lilug.org">LILUG Mailing List</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Lilug] Distro Question - Debian</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Never tried debian testing, but there's always CentOS if you're liking fedora but want something stable. Of course a lot of packages are much older but I believe the next point release will get the new version of gnome. </p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jan 20, 2017 9:22 AM, "Robert Wilkens" <<a href="mailto:robwilkens42@gmail.com">robwilkens42@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi--</p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>A few months ago i was on here, running Ubuntu, and someone pointed out some blaring security holes, like a guest account that does not stay disabled.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I switched to Fedora, but i do not (yet?) love Fedora, simply by running update twice in a row i managed to get on the development version (or is fedora just the development version of red hat), and for example doing an update knocked out my wifi (necessitating a reboot) a few days ago.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>A friend (whom i haven't seen in person in about 20 years) told me he *is* in love with debian testing. Before i commit to switching again, i want to ask here if there are any major known problems with debian (stable, testing, or unstable). I probably ran debian unstable 10 or more years ago. I believe i heard the founder of Debian (Ian) was dead so i have some doubts about how much it's being maintained.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am much more comfortable with the 'apt' package management system than I am with 'dnf' (dandified yum?)</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I am not going to transition today or that soon, i want to transfer the 2TB SSD in my desktop into my laptop first, so I'll have to clone the windows partition over and all that first.</p><div><p class=MsoNormal>---<br>Sent from Tablet</p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Lilug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lilug@lists.lilug.org">Lilug@lists.lilug.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.lilug.org/listinfo.cgi/lilug-lilug.org" target="_blank">http://lists.lilug.org/listinfo.cgi/lilug-lilug.org</a></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>