[Sussex] More confusion with linux apps (nothing new there!).

Rupert Swarbrick rupert.swarbrick at lineone.net
Thu Aug 18 09:23:20 UTC 2005


>>try Kanotics as it's debian based, uses "proper debian" repositories
>>for APT, plus a few other positives. Has anyone heard/tried it ???
> 
> 
> Have you tried Ubuntu? It's a very nice distro, simple to use and still
> Debian under the hood if you want to mess around with it. Probably more
> support and better features than smaller debian based things (or if the K
> signifies you are a KDE person, there's Kubuntu, which is a semi-official
> alternative version that has KDE as the default desktop instead of gnome).
> 

Also, it doesn't break if you redirect it to the debian repositories for
software instead, so if you want to change to 'almost-debian' again,
it's the work of 10 minutes!

Rupert
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