Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1
On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 17:39 -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote:
> >
> > Debian is stable because it goes through a long period of ensuring that
> > the individual programs are stable before each version is released. This
> > means that it is generally old when it is released. Some other
> > distributions don't go through the same amount of stabilizing so they
> > can be more up to date.
> >
> > This is the basic tradeoff. If you find Debian is too old for you, you
> > can switch to a distro that releases newer packages. There are a lot of
> > Debian derivatives that you can try without going through compiling your
> > own code. Again, Ubuntu and Mint are both popular.
> >
> >
> >
> I am well-aware of what Debian can offer to me and what it cannot. By
> choosing Debian I already accepted to use old software (not necessarily
> optimized). I already read a lot about Debian before I gave it a try and
> I am aware of the work done before every release. But this kind of a
> problem I am having may be a show stopper to me...
>
> Unfortunately, both Ubuntu and Mint currently are not meeting my needs.
> I am afraid if I want a modern distro, I will go with an RPM based one
> because I don't see a Debian based alternative that would suit to my taste.
https://www.archlinux.org/
Absolutely in sync with upstream and more stable than Debian :p, but you
have to set up Arch yourself. The install is without X, so without a DE.
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/issue
Arch Linux \r (\l)
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