SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful

Re:SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful by qwertyuiop924 on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @09:54AM (#10744575)

Yay! Another F*cking linux distro to learn about! Linux distros may not be as common as JS frameworks, but they're almost there. Just install Arch and have done with it, people. It's like having your own distro, but without all the annoying bits.

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Re:SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful by keithpeter on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:22AM (#10744753)

Quote from Wikipedia page about the OS

"At first, Symphony OS was based on Knoppix. Since its May 2006 release it is no longer based on Knoppix, but rather on Debian unstable, and features a functional hard drive installer."

Debian Sid is viable as the basis for desktop use, but there can be issues now and again and they can persist for a week or two. Just wondering at the target market for this one.

Always fun to do a dist-upgrade on anything Debian derived to see what happens...

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Re:SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful by ryanq_do on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:26AM (#10744792)

The current release available on the website is based on Debian Wheezy and was released in January. A new release, with a completely re-written desktop, based on Ubuntu will be coming out next month.

The wikipedia page is out of date in many places

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Re:SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful by keithpeter on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @12:24PM (#10745720)

Thanks for clarification. Wheezy is mega-stable at present. Good luck with the transition to Ubuntu!! Quite a job.

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Re:SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful by destinyislands on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:46AM (#10744966)

What's your opinion of Arch vs Ubuntu? I've done Ubuntu for servers but haven't spent much time with Linux as a personal OS

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Re:SymphonyOS – Light, Friendly, and Useful by keithpeter on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @12:35PM (#10745804)

Disclaimer: I'm a civilian. I just use Linux on a couple of laptops.

Arch is a rolling distro with fairly recent applications. Updates most days. Applications and system files stay in testing for a period then get pushed out. Very occasional breakage. Installer is bare-bones and uses linux commands a lot.

Ubuntu is a 'staged' distro as you well know. I imagine you were using Long Term Support versions of Ubuntu on your servers (10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and so on). The same applies to desktops so 14.04 has pretty stable packages. Ubuntu have announced application upgrades within the LTS period recently. The intermediate releases are supported for 9 months and will therefore have applications nearer to the most recent stable. Not too many updates once you get out of the immediate release period.

You might want to have a look at Debian. Unstable is not as quick as Arch with updated applications &c but pretty close. Stable is pretty stable for a couple of years at a time. Repository is huge.

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