Re: Why Debian
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Alex Naysmith <yeoman.python@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 November 2013 20:13, Alois Mahdal <Alois.Mahdal.1-ndmail@zxcvb.cz>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:40:57 +0100
>> berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
>>>
>>> So, I think that the problems you had with untrusted packages
>>> can be:
>>> 1) your fault: did you install the key?
>>> 2) mate developer's fault, if they did not provided one.
>>> 3) your package management software's fault.
>>
>> 4) there is an actual ongoing MITM attack.
>>
>> Isn't it ironic, how we people tend to forget about real
>> meaning of own alarms? *Especially* those of us who
>> really understand them?
>
> I previously used Xubuntu and was very happy with it until Software Centre
> superseded Synaptic as the default graphical package manager.
>
> Software Centre is just horrible and slow and no good for old computers.
> Arch takes too long to set up and can cause head-aches when Pacman -Syu
> makes significant changes (such as the change from HAL to udev). I've not
> tried OpenSuse, but it does look interesting.
>
> I'm pleasantly surprised with just how similar Debian XFCE and Xubuntu are,
> which makes me wonder if there are any major differences at all.
Please bottom post.
Differences: upstart and plymouth; the rest _might_ be quite similar.
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