[TriLUG] Ubuntu: whats all the fuss?

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

I prefer Gentoo, personally (then again, I uber-configure). But I know a
few people who are loving Ubuntu as a desktop replacement simply because
its ease of use. 

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Alan Porter
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:42 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Ubuntu: whats all the fuss?


In short, I like Debian because of the package management.
But their ultra-pure free-as-in-speech attitude drives me nuts.
A Debian SERVER system is easy to install and maintain, but you have to
jump through hoops to install ATI or nVidia binary drivers, multimedia
codecs, or apps that are free (beer) but not open source.  (And yes,
they're even making a stink over the Firefox icon).

Ubuntu builds on Debian's package management, but they are pragmatic
enough to include binary video drivers, vmware player, and lots of other
goodies that are free as in beer, but not as in speech.  That means a
lot of stuff "just works".

That being said, I have found that Breezy did a better job of keeping
everything in sync (that is, when the kernel changed, new kernel modules
were released for things like ndiswrapper and vmware-player).  Dapper
has not been so responsive in this area.


Alan




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