Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

2008/5/9 Mike Bird <mgb-debian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
If Debian Stable runs on your hardware and provides the software
versions that you need then use it. It is by far the best quality
and your colleagues on debian-users are much more likely than those
on ubuntu-users to give an accurate answer rather than a wild and
often inaccurate guess. However Debian Stable releases are rare
and they are usually sadly out of date.


This is very, very true. Especially the part about the mailing lists.
I joined the Debian list because the Ubuntu list was so childish. That
naturally got me to installing Debian. I still install Ubuntu for new
Linux users, though.

Dotan Cohen

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