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Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock



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On 03/20/07 06:35, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:45:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
>> So the benefit *to you* of Ubuntu is frequent Stable releases?
> 
> Precisely.
>  
>>> CentOS was much easier for me as an admin.
>> How so?
> 
> Didn't require as much inside knowledge to use with my hardware.

Some would consider that A Bad Thing.

>                                                                   (I could
> have installed Stable, then used backports.org and apt-get.org to get 95% of
> the software I needed, then compiled the rest, but it was all there in
> CentOS.  Yes, Debian has more total, but not more of what I needed that
> particular quarter.)
> 
> Also, some of the stuff I needed to support wanted Red Hat as its OS, and
> despite the LSB would not have worked on Debian without tweaking.  CentOS
> was fine.

Well, that's always a deal-breaker...



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