Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

[Matt London]

Thomas Milne wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:06:50AM -0500, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/karmic_koala_frustration/
>>> Yet more evidence against fixed release dates.
>> Oddly enough, I still think it's a beautiful release and heads above 9.04. I
>> guess the lesson here is; For best results, backup and re-install. :)
>>
> 
> This is going to sound like a troll, but I am honestly trying to
> understand. I've tried Ubuntu, and it was nice. But in the end I
> looked at Debian and thought 'it's as good or better, and I'll never
> have to reinstall again, or at least until I get new hardware'. At
> that point it was an easy choice.
> 
> Surely the Ubuntu install is no easier than Debian, especially for
> experienced users like yourself. I don't remember anything from Ubuntu
> that I can't get on Debian.
> 
> So, what is the advantage to using Ubuntu?
> 

Firstly - I'm new to the list, so "Hi" :)

I've used both, for desktop, laptop and server usage. The main reason I
hear for Ubuntu over Debian is age of packages - Ubuntu tend to push
through newer releases a lot more quickly than Debian. Theoretically
this means that debian/stable should be a more stable distro, but a lot
of the time on the desktop you end up running testing or unstable, just
because you want a version of some piece of software that's a little
more up to date.

So in theory at least, Ubuntu should give you a distro with less change
of breakage than debian/unstable, whilst giving you more up-to-date
packages than debian/stable. In practice, this usually tends to be the
case, but every now and again, things break.

Also, the Ubuntu folk seem to be a little less zealous over non-GPL
software.

Personally, I don't prefer one over the other - it's all a matter of
horses for courses.

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Matt
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