Rolling release distros

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Rolling-release stuff: I've noticed lately that PCLOS updates are coming at an almost alarming rate. I did an update 12 hours ago on a Sunday afternoon, all up-to-date. Then YAD was flagging updates again. Went to the screenshot shown.

Some of the stuff is related to having multiple desktops installed: OK, I'm a KDE guy. It's my comfort zone. But, I like to have Mate installed for an occasional change of scenery, although I find it a bit spartan. Plus, I like some of the Mate apps, like Pluma, Atril, Eye of Mate, and Audio Recorder, even when I'm in KDE-land. And I've decided to explore LXDE, and LXQT, XFCE,  and a couple others (again) when I want to pare down system resource usage, and live in a simpler world for a bit. All there as login options.

Kernel upgrades seem to come in about twice a week- it's accelerated since the Spectre/Meltdown debacle, and just hasn't slowed down.
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.20.13-pclos1 #1 SMP Wed Feb 27 14:56:26 CST 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
is the latest I'm running, I'm sure it'll be at 4.20.14 by Tuesday...

Cheers

[Rational35]

Jason,

Maybe I should have moved that last post to a new topic: "Rolling releases" or something
Feel free..


Admin: DONE

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5 hours later, at 7:23am, 43 upgraded packages to download.
Someone is very busy...

[fox]

This is one of the things that drives me crazy about rolling releases. It's nice to have the latest versions of everything, but I can wait six months until Ubuntu puts out its next version.