Re: Debian or Ubuntu
linuxnewbie1234 wrote:
So, since this requisite of mine (large number of packages) is now also
satisfied by Ubuntu, I would like to know if there is any reason to
prefer Ubuntu over Debian Testing for a desktop or vice versa?
Debian has a wider developer base and a change appears in Debain testing
faster than in Ubuntu which more or less just makes a LiveCD version of
Debian.
I heard from someone that the Debian kernels miss the most
advanced/recent/edgy features compiled in, so that you often have to
recompile. Is this thing true? This would be a deciding factor for me
because I would really like to avoid this: my computer is old and
recompiling takes forever (and also a lot of disk space).
Not sure about that, when helping Debian PPC team, they did have the
latest things enabled in the PPC kernel.
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//Aho
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