Re: Two day experiment

Johan De Cauwer wrote:

I'm using SUSE as my main system, and only recently experimented with
Feisty (Ubuntu 7.04), so I don't claim to be an Ubuntu guru, but... There
are hits in Synaptic for every instance you mentioned, except for Yast,
of course. Synaptic, based on debian, offers 21138 packages where a
standard installation uses a 1163 of them.

I was talking about default Kubuntu, not about using Debian repositories.
I had quite long tryout with Debian and sincerely I wasn't impressed.
- If I wanted stability version was almost obsolete.
- If I wanted newer packages stability was victim.

SUSE was golden cut between new and stable and despite package management
problems with 10.1 that nobody familiar with SUSE blames on developers, it
is still good in that respect.

--
Regards,
Rajko.
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