[CVALE] Wondering about Ubuntu...

[Landon Blake]

Found Ubuntu's package repository. Looks like they modify packages from
Debian. Not sure why that is needed if they are using the same packaging
system. 

 

Anyways, you can scratch that one off of my list of questions. Sorry, I
should've looked online first.

 

Landon

 

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From: cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com
[mailto:cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com] On Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 1:03 PM
To: cvale at cvale.org
Subject: [CVALE] Wondering about Ubuntu...

 

I'm getting to like my Debian distro, and I am happy this group
recommended it to me so many month's ago. However, I was looking at
Ubuntu today, and it looked appealing. It seems it might be a little
more up-to-date with the software packages, as I saw it running Open
Office 2.0. One of my frustrations with Debian has been the wait for
recent versions of popular software. I also found out today that Ubuntu
is offering commercial support. I was thinking about what type of Linux
Desktop I might use in a small business. I wanted something based on
Debian, since that is the Linux distro that I have been learning.
However, I wasn't to impressed with Linspire or Xandros. I think Ubuntu
might be what I'm looking for.

 

Is anyone currently running Ubuntu?

 

What do you think of it? 

 

How does it compare to Debian? I

 

Is it based of a Debian version? If so, which one?

 

Does Ubuntu use a separate package repository?

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Landon

 

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