Valefor

In college when using linux I did not care about stability at all. I cared about baking up data of course since I was working on school projects, but due to having school labs with linux, a work computer with linux and multiple computers of my own I could care less about distro switching and reformatting my computer on (sometimes) a daily basis.

Recently I’ve started to care more. If I reformat my work laptop with a new distro and stuff doesn’t work right it can REALLY slow me down. I can’t just fix it now and do my work later (Well, I probably could but it wouldn’t look good to my co-workers as I sit there configuring X.org).

I’ve used (and enjoyed) MANY distros and my favorites switch all the time. I’m currently using Ubuntu on work computers and my home desktop has FreeBSD, Ubuntu and a free partition that’s going to be the alpha of Foresight linux 2 when I get the chance. I was using Foresight at work for a while until we switched all of our servers to ubuntu and I wanted to learn the inner workings of the distro a bit more. I think my distro-playing in college is helping out now by allowing me to know what I can play with and what I can’t.

It’s definately made me appreciate Conary’s rollback feature in Foresight. I think that’s the feature that allows my Foresight installs to remain stable even when packages break slightly (Which is a fact of life in a rolling release binary distro! Big round of applause to the Foresight devs, they do an outstanding job.). Rolling release binary distros are definitely hard, yet very cool to get working and Conary is definitely the secret behind Foresight’s success!

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