[CVALE] Wondering about Ubuntu...

[Landon Blake]

Thanks Dennis...

 

Landon

 

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From: cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com
[mailto:cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Baker
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 1:47 PM
To: cvale at cvale.org
Subject: Re: [CVALE] Wondering about Ubuntu...

 

Ubuntu is very nice.  My only gripe is the same as my gripe with every
most Linux distros and that is that multi media support is crap from
getgo.  There are some automated ways to get mplayer/ totem (with
reasonable codex support), and MP3 support but still it's a pain.  But
that's across all distros and usually once you get them installed I like
mplayer better than the media players on Mac/ Windows because it
generally plays nearly everything... Udderwise Ubuntu is great.  I like
the integration of the apps,  and it's nice that the default install has
pretty much everything that you need to get going.  

Ubuntu's package repository is different from Debians because have
different goals than the debian developers.  Ubuntu has a smaller
repository and they tend to keep their packages more up to date than
Debian.  Also Ubuntu has more frequent releases than Debian.

-- Dennis

On 6/9/06, Landon Blake <lblake at ksninc.com> 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. 

 

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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