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NewUser (; new laptop ;) -> rolling release?

Started by Bernd_Schmitt, July 03, 2014, 07:15:32 PM

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Bernd_Schmitt

 Hello everybody and special thanks to the sparkylinux-team,

I got a new Asus Aspire E3-111 laptop and Debian 7.5 (incl. non-free) does not support wifi & acpi (battery) so I was looking for a debian based distribution (not being ubuntu) to get this things working.
Playing with mulibootusb and several live-iso i found sparkylinux and I am very surprised that sparky seems to do the job perfectly. The only thing i am concerned about is the "rolling release".
What does that mean? Main purpose is doing (python / c++ / common-lisp / fortran) coding in emacs, do some small simulations (commercial LS-Dyna (FEM)), connecting via ssh and do some browsing. Will I have to reinstall sparky-linux every several months or is it possible to (weekly) update the system for a longer time (one year)?

I hope the question is not tooo faq-ish.
Thank you very much

Bernd

pavroo

Hi
Rolling release mode means that ones installed it's forever (hope so).
You don't need to reinstall your sparky installation using new iso images.
Simply keep it up-to-date and read release notes for specials (sometimes) things if needed for upgrading (before: e17 to e18, mate 1.6 to 1.8 for example).
I have Debian testing (sparky is based on it) installed on my old laptop for about 4 years and it still works fine.
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