[Ilugc] Re: [Ann] FossConf Chennai feb08 is on
- From: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
- Date: Fri Nov 9 03:03:17 2007
Again, this is subjective. I find they make Ubuntu _less_ user
friendly, by restricting choices and making choices for the user. I
gave up trying to configure Ubuntu for my machine; and ended up by
wiping it out and going back to Debian. Not that the task was
impossible; it just took too much work to undo all the choices made.
Yes, and in my case I had to rescue my exim config from debconf - either on
debian or on ubuntu - and stick it all in one monolithic file the way exim
originally works.
I would probably spend time doing that for a few other things too, rather
than have the configs, spoolfiles etc scattered all over the filesystem,
quite frequently in entirely non default places that are totally debian
specific. Just not bothered to do so yet.
Which then results in debian specific mailing lists for various pieces of
software (such as exim) getting created after exim-users@xxxxxxxx got
cluttered with debian users asking entirely debian specific config
questions, referencing debian specific config variables, that nobody other
than debian users could answer. Irritating to say the least.
srs
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