[CVALE] Wondering about Ubuntu...

[Landon Blake]

Thanks for the feedback Rick.

Landon

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[mailto:cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com] On Behalf Of Rick Knight
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 1:29 PM
To: cvale at cvale.org
Subject: Re: [CVALE] Wondering about Ubuntu...

Landon Blake wrote:

>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. 
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>Anyways, you can scratch that one off of my list of questions. Sorry, I
>should've looked online first.
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>Landon
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>[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...
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>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.
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>Is anyone currently running Ubuntu?
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>What do you think of it? 
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>How does it compare to Debian? I
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>Is it based of a Debian version? If so, which one?
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>Does Ubuntu use a separate package repository?
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>Thanks for the info.
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>Landon
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Been using Kubuntu for several months now without problems. Ubuntu is 
Debian/Gnome, Kubuntu is Debian/KDE. I've never been a fan of Gnome, 
hence I chose to go Kubuntu. Package wise, both use the ubuntu apt 
repositories and so far, everything I've tried to run for both KDE and 
Gnome has worked using apt-get or Kynaptic. I've only had to build a of 
apps from source. I used to be a Slackware user and had to build apps 
all the time so apt is quite a (nice) change.

Rick



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