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Re:Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised by rincebrain on Monday February 22, 2016 @09:57AM (#11151144)
LTS or the other versions?

Any distro with a release schedule is going to have caveats about not having prebuilt packages for the latest XYZ. The only things I can think of that might give you a faster update schedule than Ubuntu (in terms of newer versions, not just point releases) would be Fedora, Arch, or Gentoo.

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Re:Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised by moonchrome on Monday February 22, 2016 @10:09AM (#11151258)
Even the standard releases are too stale, in LTS dev tools and compilers are ancient.

I've forgot to mention I've moved to Fedora a year or two back for this reason - got tired of rebuilding/PPA hunting for every part of my OS when I want to use the latest version of tool/lib X.

And once dependencies are too old (very often) prepare to be rebuilding 5+ custom libs and figuring out the differences between debian package/path layout and what the library build uses ... so much wasted time.

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