[PD] Linux - which distribution to use?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Wed Apr 18 19:06:31 CEST 2007


Hallo,
Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:01 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > Me, too. Debian rules. Other than that pure:dyne rules as well.
> 
> i agree, though ubuntu is also a debian derivative, but sometimes much
> easier to use than debian and from my experience comes with better
> maintained repos. as a beginner, i'd still vote for ubuntu.

Most of the packages in Ubuntu come directly from Debian. When I was
running Ubuntu on my laptop, I found, that I wasn't using the stuff,
that's not in Debian, at all, so I reverted this system from Ubuntu to
Debian again. OTOH packages from Ubuntu often flow back to Debian. In
the end, it's a matter of taste. 

But one general advice I would give is this: Beginner's shouldn't
switch between distributions a lot. They should decide on one
distribution and learn it for some time, at least for some months. 

And most importantly: Don't ever reinstall! (Unless the system was
misconfigured in such a way that it doesn't boot.) Reinstalling
doesn't fix problems on Linux. (That would be MS-Windows-thinking.) It
just covers the tracks. To fix a problem on Linux, one should read the
logs and read the docs and ask around for help, but not reinstall.

Just my 2ct.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__




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