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On 3/27/07, Robin Cornelius <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 3/27/07, Robin Menneer <robinmenneer@xxxxxxxxx> 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 ? > > > > Ubuntu is based on Debian so most things will be very similar so there > should not be much learning. > > There are probably very few direct tangable benifits which makes it > difficult to give really good reasons that are easy to see. If you > wanted to run a server debian stable is the way to go the security > team (and the rest) do a good job of keeping patches upto date. > sometimes the apps may be a little old but for most server jobs, > email, SMB, web thats fine anyway so all you want is a stable system > will all security and stability bugs up to date. When it comes time to > upgrade stable, you will expect it to *just* work. > > If you are on the desktop then the only real reasons are the political > ones about free/non free which i think has been done to death > recently. Apart from that there probably is not a huge difference > between ubuntu and debian unstable? i think ubuntu has more "helper" > stuff to make some tasks from the GUI a bit simpler. > > > -- > Robin Cornelius > http://www.byteme.org.uk > > I'm now less confused,, but feel that perhaps I shouldn't have been confused in the first place. If ubuntu is the entry point, then this should be made more plain. Please do not confuse newbies with your infighting as we cannot discern the serious from the playing. -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html