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On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:32:00AM +0100, Robin Menneer wrote: > > I've just arrived into Ubuntu. Why should I go to Debian - wot's in it for > me ? Why learn something new when I happy with Ubuntu ? > If you are happy then stay there... what distribution you choose has I think a lot to do with personal preferences. As to why I choose debian: - Installing and removing software is easy - Keeping my system upto date is easy (cron-apt) - Lots of software choices - Lots of users - It runs very simply on my machine - see www.debian.org/social_contract I have been tempted to try out other distributions, but have not so far. Ones I have thought about are: - Gentoo (apparently it runs really quickly, what worries me is whether I could get it running and keep it upto date) - Ubuntu: but I don't like the heavy graphics. It is what I recommend to anyone else and I try and carry a version with me in case I need to log onto someone elses machine - Damn Small Linux. Would be fun - Fedora. To see how RedHat operates - Suse. Did not like the screen - freebsd. Not quite sure what it offers over debian - http://www.gnewsense.org/ Since this recent discussion. I would at least like to see what its like see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distributions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions I think everyone has opinions as to why they prefer their particular sort of software, and I am very thankful to all of those people who have allowed me the ability to choose. -- Henry Tue Mar 27 12:03:34 BST 2007
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