Ubuntu and Kubuntu vs. Mepis.... Gentoo?

[Jack]

--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" wrote:

>  Sounds to me like you may have CD burner problems
> or possibly many bad
> downloads.  If I were you, I'd check MD5 sums on
> your .iso image
> downloads.  Also, if you are talking about hardware
> issues with your
> laptop...
That was my first thought, but it only happens with
Ubuntu family of distros. Whereas, the odd thing is,
that I have my best success with the *buntu distros
on laptops.

> For Apt-pin issues, I was referring to stuff pinned
> by Mepis.  It would
> either keep me from installing or uninstalling
> software.  Many times,
> just an upgrade would be impossible ...
Hmm, that's odd. I've never run into that issue
with Mepis.


> Does
> anyone have apt-get
> update/upgrade called in a cron job to stay up to
> date?
I've considered it, but have decided I like to see
what
is going to upgrade before doing it (especially since,
I have OpenOffice apt-pinned so that I can use Mozilla
addresses as a data source). Although, the 
update part is a good idea.