[Lancaster] Greetings + Odds and Sods

[Ken Hough]

andy baxter wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:00 +0000, Ken Hough wrote:
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>>I guess that it's comes down to what you are used to. My own impression 
>>of Debian is that if you are familiar with it and prefer to hack the 
>>setup maually, then it can be good. I have played with it and eventually 
>>got it set up to do what I wanted, but I found it a lot more work than 
>>when managing SuSE systems.
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>> From time to time, I install software that is not included in the SuSE 
>>discs or in their archives. Most times, RPM stuff installs OK and extra 
>>libs, etc can usually be found also as RPM. I have also 
>>compiled/installed stuff from source code, usually without too many 
>>problems.
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>>For me, the pain of trying to set up and manage Debian, doesn't justify 
>>any of the claimed gains.
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>>Ken Hough
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>Which is why I like ubuntu - you get the gains without the pain.
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I'm still not convinced. I've already posted a description of the 
problems that I found with Ubuntu.

Each to their own and long may it be so.

Ken