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On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:32:00AM +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
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> 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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