What distro has the most up-to-date packages?

[Peep]

There are a few things that I don't yet have in 9.2 that I used to have in 9.1 from Texstar. I'm not cool enough to build my own RPMs and prefer to stay away from installing something like KDE 3.1.4 from source. I joined the club a few days ago primarily as a way to donate for the free ISOs I've dl'ed from mandrakesoft, but was a bit baffled at the utter lack of RPMs that the club seems to give you.

 

Are there other distros that seem to have very up-to-date packages constantly being built? Or is mandrake on par or better than most of the distros out there?

[iphitus]

Debian Unstable/sid (what I use)

 

Is contrary to the name, very stable and easy to install

/me dons flameproof armour

 

It can be installed with Knoppix or one of the newer netinstall ISO's. Though the netinstall ISO's are down atm which sucks!

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

https://alioth.debian.org/projects/d-i/

http://knoppix.org/

 

When I get my new laptop im gonna install debian from a USB storage stick :D

http://d-i.pascal.at/

 

You could always try Mandrake Cooker, though that IS unstable.

 

And if you are patient there is gentoo, normally someone makes a gentoo ebuild for something very quickly after it comes out. Well, i think so. i dont know much about gentoo.

Edited January 8, 2004 by iphitus

[capnkirby]

Another good one to look at is Mepis, it seems to be kept very up to date, and is a very smooth distro...

 

Capn

[iphitus]

http://freedesktop.org/~daniel/d-i/

 

You can download the debian netinstall there, its pretty easy to use.

 

To install stuff after you've run the installer login as root and run as root:

 

tasksel

 

if tasksel isnt installed,

 

apt-get install tasksel

 

then run it.

I am not sure if that will install gnome, so for gnome

 

apt-get install gnome

 

Then just apt-get install any software that you want. You might also want to apt-get install gdm or kdm pretty quickly.

 

~iphitus

Edited January 8, 2004 by iphitus

[DragonMage]

Mandrake cooker...

Well you say you want up to date don't you? :)

 

Anyway.. you can still use texstar's pclinuxos and mandrakeclub's repository to update a mandrake 9.2 installation.. That's what I do..

[VeeDubb]

I've been thinking about trying debian again. not offence to my mandrake brothers, just kiling time untill the final 10.2 release.

[Guest kuchwas]

Mandrake Cooker.

 

You get to install 30 to 50 packages a day on average.

[Qchem]

Depends how much effort you want to put in, gentoo is by it's nature very good for being up to date. Then theres the unstable part of all the distributions eg. Mandrake Cooker, Debian Unstable, Redhat Rawhide... Fedora is supposed to be up to date but that won't happen for a while yet until they get themselves sorted out.

[SoulSe]

I find that <cough>Gentoo</cough> is great at keeping me up-to-date... apt (Debian) also has great repositories.

 

Portage is based on BSD's ports, ebuilds are constantly updated and a quick emerge sync && emerge -up world reveals many updates on a daily basis with the choice to accept unstable packages as well.