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On Friday 28 September 2007 15:41, Ben Goodger wrote: > On 28/09/2007, Ray Smith <rjsmith@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Think I'll wait 2 or 3 more weeks till the final release. > > 2 or 3 weeks? > This explains much. Why such a downer on the Ubuntu distro? It has its faults, but so do all the others. Unlike many of the "older" distros, it has done a lot - along with a few others - to make Linux worth trying out for many people. Like many on this list, I was using Linux in the days when it really was difficult to get anything to work with the system. Although things have moved on dramatically, it is still a fairly scary thought for many people to consider using Linux, hence the Ubuntu and other more user friendly distros. I can still operate a command line should I so desire (and do regularly), but my chosen distro is Kubuntu. Prior to that I was on the development team for another distro, but for my day to day use, I have Kubuntu. Rather like Mandrake in the older days, it caters for those who prefer to run a system which includes many little extras to make things less hassle - straight out of the box. During my time using it, I have seen one problem - related to HAL. Nothing terribly drastic, but a small issue. I have seen small issues on my Debian box too, so it hardly makes the Ubuntu family stand out as some sort of unstable distro in my view - and I use my systems (of which I have several) daily, all day (and night in some cases). Running the very latest release will put you in a slightly more "exploratory" position, as does running Deb unstable sometimes. But all the main issues should be ironed out on release - they have a pretty big dev team and lots of testers. If you want stability, you pick 6.06, if you fancy looking at the new goodies, you pick the current release and if you want to take a chance, you can run a testing release - exactly like Debian or any other distro. As I have said before on this list, knocking other distros for petty points scoring for distroX is detrimental to Linux as a whole. I shall continue to use whichever distro suits my needs, as I have done since I started using Linux. I do not knock others, even if I see things which I consider strange or odd. This list is becoming a Debian/FSF fanclub, rather than a LUG one. -- 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