On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Andrew Zbikowski wrote: > If you're thinking Debian, I would go with Ubuntu myself. Ubuntu has a 6 > month release cycle, where Debian has...well it's Debian so... :) I think I've read before about long waits for new Debian releases, but this is something I don't quite understand: What do I need to do when a new release comes out? What is new in a new release? I would guess this means that new versions of many programs are made available in the new release. If there is no kernel update, then can I just install the new software without a reboot? Is there any downtime with a new release? What am I missing if I skip new releases? > Ubuntu is much easier to train someone new to Linux administration on as > well. Lots of nice GUI stuff, where as it's all command line in Debian. That sounds good. > For building from source, I reccomend using stow. Handy little perl > script for managing software installation/uninstallation under > /usr/local. That also sounds good. I'd never heard of it, but I can see that it is based on a very clever scheme!: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hoary/admin/stow Well, it sounds like some former Debian users are finding that they now prefer Ubuntu/Kubuntu and that makes me wonder if I should be trying Ubuntu instead of Debian. So many decisions! Mike