Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock
On 19 Mar 2007, Michael Pobega wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 12:44:38PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> >
> > Just saw this in the following piece:
> > http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/murdockint.html
> >
> > "Ubuntu has certainly raised the bar. They have had a tremendous impact
> > on the number of people worldwide using Debian (I do consider Ubuntu to
> > be Debian). ..."
> >
> > ->HS
> >
>
> Funny, I just read this twenty minutes ago.
>
> I think Ian is somewhat right, most people who use Ubuntu (Not to
> insult them) are teenagers who want to use Linux in the same way "hip"
> people use Macs. Not to say that all people who use Ubuntu are like
> that, but a good majority are.
>
> And for the people who actually want to use Linux, they will
> eventually move from Ubuntu to Debian. That is how I found my way
> here, since my vendor (System76) ships with Ubuntu by default. I spent
> three months in Ubuntu learning how to use and configure my system,
> and after three months I felt ready to switch to Debian. I think that
> is what Ian meant by "[Ubuntu has] a tremendous impact on the number
> of people [...] using Debian".
>
> I'll be looking forward to April's LFX, sucks that I live in America
> so I have to wait an extra month or so to get the magazine.
>
>
As I shall be 74 in a couple of months I don't think I qualify as a
teenager. I've used Debian consistently for a number of years but when I
bought a Thinkpad Z61M recently I was unable to get either the sound or
the Broadcom wireless to work with Debian; this in spite of much
helpful advice on this list and elsewhere. And I'm not alone; someone
who posted an account of success with Debian on the Z61M emailed me
recently to say that sound was now causing him problems.
Ubuntu worked out of the box. It really didn't seem sensible to spend
more time wrestling with Debian, though I'd still prefer to use it if I
could.
In fact, after making a few changes I now have Ubuntu looking more or
less indistinguishable from Debian, though I understand that upgrading
may be problematic later.
--
Anthony Campbell - ac@acampbell.org.uk
Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian
http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews,
on-line books and sceptical articles)
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