I use debian for my (virtual) server and used to use it on desktops until Ubuntu came along.<br><br>Debian tends to be very stable but tends to lack the newest 'toys' that I might want on my desktop, Ubuntu has them, but you see app crashes more often, and ubuntu can be quite a hog!
<br><br>apt-get update && apt-get upgrade is always a welcoming sight however ;-)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 09/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Colin Brough</b> <<a href="mailto:Colin.Brough@blueyonder.co.uk">
Colin.Brough@blueyonder.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Hi Guys,<br>><br>> Well i have been scouring the Linux news as usual and it really seems that
<br>> new distro's is the topic of the month this month. For you Debian lovers<br>> it has finally arrived Etch is here ?<br>> <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408">http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408
</a>.<br>><br>> Now to be honest with you i have never used a pure Debian being a little<br>> bit of a newbie i have spent most of my Linux adolescence in Buntu, which<br>> is a Debian love child (i think this best describes it but i am open to
<br>> better terms) but being the child that it is it stands on the shoulders of<br>> other people success (but then again we all do that, and chats shown<br>> through technological history).<br>><br>> One thing i do know about Debian is that they doesn't half seem to be a lot
<br>> of in fighting and what ever you do don't ask a Debian developers about<br>> release cycles, i here that a sore one as well.<br>><br>> So do we have many Debian users on ?The List?? Just in case i decide to
<br>> have a play i want to be able to buy a pint for the usual advice.<br><br>I'm kind of a Debian user - been a long time Redhat and then Mandrake<br>user, but my systems tend to mutate as I install stuff from source...
<br>then something I want to install depends on libraries newer than I<br>have and they are a bit too fundamental to do a source install... and<br>I get stuck! That's where I am at the moment - and Mandrake 10.1 no<br>
longer has maintained urpmi reposotories...<br><br>So I'm about to migrate to Debian - but this is my main work desktop,<br>and it needs to work reliably, so I do tend to plan carefully the<br>upgrades. I've got my old box running Debian unstable, and will move
<br>the main machine over shortly. Some of the problems I'm having just<br>now are exactly down to not knowing the Debian way of finding<br>information and configuration details.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Colin<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------
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