[NTLUG:Discuss] Debian -- considering switching to Debian

[Peter A. Koren]

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 21:04 -0500, Peter A. Koren wrote:
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> Now that I am investigating the subject, I will also consider
> Ubuntu/Kubuntu. If I correctly interpret what Ubuntu is, then it seems
> to include the Debian repositories as compatible. I'll have to check
> this further.

After researching this issue, looking at what was in the ubuntu/kubuntu
repositories ( an 8MB gzipped contents file which uncompressed was 115MB
of text described every file in every package) and reading reviews and
the flame wars between Debian and Ubuntu supporters, I have decided that
Ubuntu/Kubuntu is the way to go for me. It appears to have just about
every application I want and I'll make the switch in the coming weeks
when I belatedly get broadband installed at home. The completeness of
the repositories will save me an enormous amount of time installing what
I need. I can't wait for the rpm repositories to catch up, though I am
glad that they are finally racing to do that. Competition is a good
thing.

Brian's point about not being stuck with slow moving enterprise versions
is a good one. These improve slowly because of the systems
administration issues associated with their use in large deployments. I
am not a sys admin. I am interested a desktop machine (or two or three
desktop machines), so the trade-offs are different for me than for
corporate types.

So the remaining issue for me is whether to go with the current stable
version of Ubuntu (hoary) or the development version (breazy), though I
will probably play this one safe -- hoary has what I want anyway.

-- Pete