Is it Possible to Make My Porteus a Rolling Release

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limotux
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Is it Possible to Make My Porteus a Rolling Release

Post#1 by limotux » 26 Oct 2021, 09:22

Hi, I sure understand Porteus is not a rolling distro.
I believe I read somewhere that “current” is considered a rolling release.

So if I installed “current” to usb flash disk and made it persistent, I won’t need to reinstall?

What I care about mainly is not to reinstall and reconfigure not to have the bleeding edge.
Can I change repos to point to “current”? How?

Thank you.

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Is it Possible to Make My Porteus a Rolling Release

Post#2 by burdi01 » 26 Oct 2021, 09:52


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Is it Possible to Make My Porteus a Rolling Release

Post#3 by limotux » 26 Oct 2021, 10:10

Thanks
But this is slackware not Porteus!
You mean I should “convert” to slackware though I believe Porteus is more to my taste? It doesn’t run from RAM as Porteus, which is a plus for me for speed.

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Is it Possible to Make My Porteus a Rolling Release

Post#4 by Ed_P » 26 Oct 2021, 17:04

Porteus is based on Slackware but is not a full release of Slackware. It is just the parts that work for most systems. The Nememis version of Porteus is more a rolling release.
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Is it Possible to Make My Porteus a Rolling Release

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