On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 21:19:33 -0400 Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> wrote: > On Monday 03 April 2006 19:28, Steve Lamb wrote: > > D. Michael McFarland wrote: > > > Ubuntu is a fine distribution. It works for my friends and it's > > > easy for me to administer for them. But the overall Ubuntu > > > experience is a little too sweet for my taste. > > > > You might like Mepis for friend's machines. It goes out of its > > way to make things freindlier but as far as I could see it doesn't > > really hide anything. It also used normal Debian repositories > > instead of replacing them so in theory it should be easy to switch to > > pure Debian at a later date. > > I used Mepis for a while and it is still on my Father's computer. It > worked great for installing, but after 6 months or so I had more and > more trouble with adding packages (which I rarely have on Debian). I > don't know if it has anything to do with the problem I had, but I think > mixing Testing and Unstable sources can cause problems in the long run. I had this problem with a Knoppix-hd install as well. At one point, I had to just bite the bullet and go straight to sid. It really only took a couple months of intermittent upgrades and additions to start to have problems with that mixed environment. And the upgrade to sid was no piece of cake either. I think its much better to NOT mix releases. .02 A > > Hal > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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