Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Chris Humphries wrote:
>
> Obviously, you have no idea what Ubuntu is. Nice try though.
>
> Ubuntu will never be a commercialized linux, and even will mail
> you cds for free. It seems to be organized better and "just works"
> without having to hack things around. Ubuntu being commercial
> is actually against the fundamental constants of what Ubuntu is.
>
> Please do your home work first.
>
> Ubuntu does a lot of work and passes on to debian, if you took notice
> many debian security notices came from Ubuntu since Ubuntu has been
> around, as well as regular fixes for packages.
>
> Please read the Ubuntu website about what Ubuntu is. It is free, will
> remain free forever, and is generally more organized and streamlined
> than debian itself.
Not only is it free, and not only will Ubuntu send CDs on request, it
actually anticipated my desires by sending me a Live CD and an installable
CD before I requested them!
I have used Debian since potato, and generally have liked Debian.
However, what really turns some people on to Debian turns me off --
especially the package manager criteria for including not-quite-pure
executables (e.g., pine) in most of the distributions. I know my mild
comment will light a roaring conflagration, but I won't participate in it,
particularly since I believe it is praising Debian with faint damns.
I have tried the live CDs of both Ubuntu and Knoppix -- I thought Knoppix
was a little more responsive than Ubuntu (though both seemed good), but
since I don't expect to use the Live CDs very often, it could take a very
long time to find out through my own trial and error which of the two I
really prefer. So I thought I could get some second-hand experience via
the Debian user list; after all, isn't that one of the charms of Linux and
the people who use it?
sam
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