[Wolves] Ubuntu Derivatives

[Alan Pope]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:40:57PM +0100, david wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 14:09 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:01:13PM +0100, david wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > In addition I can only find SUSE on a DVD
> > > 
> > > 
> > > http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version#United_Kingdom
> > > 
> > 
> > There you go, same kind of thing as Debian, 5 CDs plus an add-on CD.
> > 
> > With Ubuntu you get one CD (for your release of choice).
> 
> And 16,000+ applications available online. Not too overwhelming there
> then?!
> 

Oh come on. You comparing the manhandling of 5 CDs and the ensuing fun with
clicking Applications --> Add/Remove --> <Software category> --> <Software
product> --> Tick --> OK. ?

I would assert that having many CDs is orders of magnitude more confusing
for users than having a nice gui with a list of software to install from
some magic website.

Cheers,
Al.