[NTLUG:Discuss] Debian vs Ubuntu vs (your hometown hero)

[Ralph Green, Jr.]

Howdy,
  Ubuntu so far has been excellent in terms of updatability.  The
product has had only 2 releases, but who can say whether it will
continue.  The owner sold his first company for just over a half billion
dollars, so he probably won't run out of money, but will he lose
interest?  The Canonical business model, by Mr Shuttleworth's own words
may end up being more of a charity than a business.  I am not worried,
but you have to decide for yourself.  I have two Ubuntu machines that
have been running since the first release.  Ubuntu seems to have been
pretty good about about updates.  And last weekend, I checked one for
updates and it shows 500 updates available.  I applied them all and 3
hours later, I am running the current release.

  I don't know about your resolution problem.  It may still be there.  I
installed Ubuntu 5.04 on a Thinkpad 570.  Ubuntu only offers me
resolutions of 640x480 and 800x600. The Thinkpad 570 should also be able
to run at 1024x768.  I have several of these Thinkpad 570 machines and
SuSe 9.2, Mandrake 10.2rc2, Xandros 3 OCE all showed 1024x768 as the
default resolution(Fedora Core 3 just goes crazy and won't
install(details available if you want them)).  Now, I can obviously fix
the X config files by hand and I suspect you could do the same.  It
turns out that I really wanted 800x600, so I have not looked to see
where the problem is.  This shows me they have some difficulty in auto
detecting resolutions.
Good luck,
Ralph

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 09:10 -0500, Johnny Cybermyth wrote:
> Debian's net install and apt utility.  So, what would be some 
> considerations in choosing a debian-based distro(like Ubuntu) over plain 
> Debian?  Upgradeability?  Project longevity?
> 
> I see that Ubuntu has new release which I hope will lay to rest the 
> 1280x1024 resolution issue that I still have with their "warty" release.