On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, J Cruit wrote: > The religion you are missing is that it is based on the one true distro > "Debian" that uses the package manager to rule them all "dpkg" with > "apt" as the dpkg ring bearer. Tht might be the "religion" that drives some users. What do you think, maybe 2% of them? Most users don't know anything about all of that. For example, I've been using Ubuntu as my main system for about 3 years. I knew that it came from Debian and that Debian was really into maintaining a free-software system. I did like that but that wasn't what drove my choice. I also know that I mostly use Synaptic or apt-get to install packages, but does that have something to do with dpkg? I guess that's what you are saying but I didn't know that and I don't care. All that matters to me is that I click the buttons and the software is installed and it works. > In truth I always thought a distro based on Debian was the way to go for > the simple fact that is is so easy to maintain and upgrade (as long as > you keep away from the funkier apt sources). > > So Ubuntu was that, now maybe Mint is it. Mostly though I use Backtrack > which moved to a Debian base as well. Is there something with packages that Ubuntu used to do but it has since stopped doing? If a distro is "easy to maintain and upgrade," than I guess you don't have to be "religious" to want to use it. Mike