Re: Two day experiment

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:59:02 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:

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.

Well, the figures I gave you are from a standard Ubuntu 7.04 installation.
It's true it evolved from beta, so it includes all Ubuntu sources.

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.


The difference between Debian and Ubuntu: They take Debian unstable and
test it out, making a lot of changes. These are really different
distributions, the one is based on the other, but adapted. You can put it
this way: Ubuntu is a stable debian unstable.

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.

Since I use SUSE, I have to agree with that. My argument is simply that
Ubuntu isn't so bad. With some patience and some reading you can overcome
the differences, and use a huge variety of programs.
Kind regards,
Johan

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