[Ilugc] Looking back at 2004 - Linux
- From: sridharinfinity@xxxxxxxxx (Sridhar R)
- Date: Fri Jan 7 10:55:12 2005
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:37:54 +0530, Toufeeq Hussain
<Toufeeq_Hussain@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I tried Ubuntu once.
And I can say that it's good for you if you fall in this category
* You love GNOME, not KDE (Kubuntu is for KDE fans)
Ubuntu does have kde in 'universal', which means unsupported.
* You have a broadband connection at home or the complete
Sarge CD-set.
Due to Ubuntu release cycle, I see a broadband connection is not at
all needed. The user just get an Ubuntu CD each 6 months and upgrade
is current system with that. Technicall this is possible with Debian
too, but Ubuntu does that in a clean way (fixed release cycles in sync
with Gnome). Gnome users would love it.
* Are Paranoid about keeping your Distro on the bleeding edge.
This is the main reason I switched to Ubuntu from debian. I need the
*latest* development packages. For example, gnome-python-extras is
(as of now) missing in debian/sid and unofficial sources. That
necessitated me to 'make install' pygtk-2.5, gnome-python-2.9.x and so
..on (the slackware way).
btw, 'warty' in ubuntu is like 'sarge' in debian only that it is not
updated throught that 6 months time (except for security updates).
'hoary' is like 'sid' in debian but much closer to current. For
example, 'hoary' has gnome2.9 as of now!
For the last point you can also try Gentoo :)
The only problem I had with Gentoo is the 'compile time'.
Re-compiling everytime a support release of package (same version)
happens is not pleasing. Known solutions (just a compromise) are
using distcc, catching build files or using binary packages (quite
outdated than debian sarge binary packages). Over all, IMO,
advantage of user-level compilation is less when compared to binary
packages.
Also the staff on board Cannonical is some of the who's who of the
Linux-Desktop Community.
Jeff Waugh, Micheal Meeks ...
And Ubuntu enjoys enourmous sponsorship from Cannonical.
You can get *free* (gratis) official CDs from
http://shipit.ubuntulinux.org/
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