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On 3/27/07, Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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've just read this file (above) and am confused again, clearly debian is so wonderful that I have been misled in getting ubuntu. Help ! > > 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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iQCVAwUBRgj9NK8rFab7RHqhAQLmuAQAtN5dudSfkZocXfnfc1hwBHVE3wzRndPI > Fc5ygWB1DA96ivq1zM7IBk4Rpe2WdD8rdqCySZJC8SpBrkJrUNGM1Av74jYQHDhp > n/43kQ+YJAEUSGsve+bqS57acvbFbM/C9JDDcV7U6uyoeFgYgusW9thO3FBN4HDq > nDRBqiRBumI= > =mmF1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > 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