Ok, hopefully this will not set off a flame war :)
Basically my experience with ubuntu has been that when it works right
and you stay in the lines, it's great. Fixing problems or doing
something unorthodox occasionally involves a touch of smoke and mirrors.
Just for fun I thought I would give regular Debian a try. I just
installed Debian on another machine. It's in the process of upgrading
to "testing". I thought the documentation for Debian was very
straight-forward, but perhaps scary to the text-file phobic, but that's
where I always ended up in Ubuntu.
Questions:
- is that an accurate debian / ubuntu difference, what else is there?
Basically the only sense i've gotten is that ubuntu is friendly, debian
is balanced(?) and gentoo is for freaks. I kid.
- is testing a good choice? From the description I am expecting
current, but not bleeding edge packages and a machine that is unlikely
to blow up.
- will it be "easier" to do a machine based on compile-installs etc and
not just relying on apt-get with debian than ubuntu. So therefore might
it be easier to transition to a realtime machine. For my purposes
edgy's 18ish kernel hasn't failed me yet, but hey.
wow that turned out to be long but it's some stuff I'd been curious
about.
Received on Mon Jan 29 00:15:05 2007
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