On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, J Cruit wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Ubuntu was a nice, polished Debian distro that had resources behind it and a well defined release cadence (6 months). The initial concept was pure win. Unfortunately Ubuntu and Gnome's leadership* clashed mightily and I think that's partly what caused Ubuntu to jump the shark with Unity. I'm partial to Debian-based distros myself but I can roll with distros that use rpm too. I don't think Ubuntu + Unity is bad or good - it's just not what I want. -Rob * Using the word "leadership" in a broad sense with respect to Gnome. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111120/80fbed76/attachment.html>