the 'which distro' question

[Tony Alfrey]

Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 03:28 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> So I'm getting a new box like everyone tells me to do and now I'm trying 
>> to figure out what to put on it.  I'm an rpm kinda guy in that in the 
>> past I've used rpm from a terminal to install most stuff because I don't 
>> trust a lot of these installer things like YAST.  And most of my older 
>> apps that I want to run on my new box are rpm things.  So it occurs to 
>> me that things like kubuntu that are based on debian require debian 
>> packages, not rpms?  And there seems to be a lot of grief of one sort or 
>> another with SuSE 10.2, so am I left with something like Fedora?
>>
> 
> Fedora is not that bad! I use it on my laptop, and for a time, even used
> it on a server. The great thing about Fedora Core 6 is all the
> eye-candy, like Beryl, which makes it look so much cooler than Windows
> XP. The bad thing about it is that updates come hard and fast, and every
> 6 months or so, you will feel compelled to install (note: I did not say
> upgrade because the upgrade process can be very painful) the next
> version of Fedora. That can be a real deal-breaker if you need a distro
> that will stay on your computer for longer than a year. You'll probably
> need a good backup and restore strategy for data and applications, if
> you want to use Fedora, so each release cycle is not so traumatic. 
> 
> Well, just my 2 cents...

Well, can you all comment on why I would need to do this frequent 
upgrading if what I manage to install the first time works well?
Thanks!

> 
> Regards,
> pascal chong
> 
> 
> 
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