On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:56:17PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Matt Hallacy wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 13:50 -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> >> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Matt Hallacy wrote:
> >>
> >>> If you want a solid server distribution, CentOS, RHEL maybe Slackware.
> >>> If you want a solid desktop/laptop distribution, Fedora, or SuSE.
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there anything wrong with Ubuntu?
> >
> > Despite all the hard work the Ubuntu folks have put into it, it still
> > receives a great deal of its package repository from Debian which has
> > proven repeatedly that they really have no standards for package quality
> > or package maintainers.
>
>
> No standards at all? That is bad.
Yes, it is bad, that's why you need to take it with 50g of NaCl.
> I haven't had any problems yet, that I
> know of. I thought one of the arguments advanced in favor of Ubuntu was
> that it was like Debian with better packages -- more up to date, at least.
Debian really cares about the quality of their packages and about the
integration of those packages. I had a Debian system that up for 5
years, with frequent software updates. During that time, I upgraded
the motherboard a couple of times and switched the hard drives at
least four times. Debian is stable and it works.
Cheers,
florin
--
Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition.
http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163
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