Ubuntu first time

[Ian Petersen]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Alejandro Imass <aimass-EzYyMjUkBrFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> For specialized workstations and servers Debian is clearly a better
>> choice. But then so is Slack and Gentoo. So it all depends... there is
>> no one size fits all and that is the beauty of Open Source in
>> particular Linux where there are many specialized distros for each
>> need.
>
> If "so is Slack and Gentoo," then it's not nearly so clear what is a
> better choice.

I parsed Alejandro's comment as "Debian is clearly a better choice
than Ubuntu for specialized workstations and servers", which is not
contradicted by the fact that Slack and Gentoo are also better choices
than Ubuntu in those cases.

Ian
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