On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:14 PM M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb(a)znmeb.net>
wrote:
I'm glad someone brought up Tumbleweed because every so often I
build a VM
of Tumbleweed, a VM of Rawhide and a VM of Debian "sid" just to see if I
could use any of them as a workstation day-to-day. What I'm looking for
mostly is the latest GNOME desktop, Firefox browser, Virtual Machine
Manager stack and Docker stack. LibreOffice is nice but I can live without
it, given that I have RStudio Server and PostgreSQL / PostGIS running in
(Debian) containers.
[snip]
After I posted this, I went through the Tumbleweed virtual machine exercise
again, but instead of doing containers, I decided to replicate the apps on
my current F25 workstation - R / RStudio, Calibre, QGIS and PostGIS are the
main ones. The bottom line is, while the Tumbleweed kernel and GNOME /
LibreOffice packages are nice and modern, the same cannot be said for QGIS
and PostGIS. I couldn't even get current builds for them out of their
experimental repos! I'd have to build them from source to get the latest
stable PostGIS and QGIS.
PostGIS I can run in a container, but QGIS is a desktop app - I'd have to
load up a bunch of Qt -devel packages to even build it. So to get a modern
GNOME workstation from binaries, my options are Fedora, Ubuntu / Mint or
Debian. A Fedora rolling release is looking very good to me right now.
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