[ale] thinking about switching away from ubuntu

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 04:37 -0500, Justin W Elam wrote:
> Adam and Michael :
> 
> In regards to your distribution selection, that you are wanting the
> greatest and latest programs.
> 
> I have two recommendations for you.
> 
> One use Debian Unstable Sid
> Two use Debian Stable currently Lenny

On this I would agree.  Debian *can* do everything Ubuntu does, it just
does not do it by default.  However, it has the down side of *you*
taking the time to set up all the features you want to work the way you
want.  On the other hand, once you set up Debain Sid, you are done once
and for all (or at least until a major changes rolls in).

I am starting to find Ubuntu is also bugging me.  However, I also agree
with others on this thread that every distro bugs me after some period
of time.
> 
> Since you both liked Ubuntu but noticed that it had too much 'bloat'
> 
> visit http://www.debian.org for more information.
> 
> a good repository host is at University of Illinois at
> Urbana-Champaign COSMOS page at
>  http://cosmos.cites.uiuc.edu
> 
> There you will find repositories for various flavors of fedora,
> gentoo, rpmfustion, knoppix, and debian among others.
> 
> Three another option could be puppy, dsl, or openSuse
> Visit http://www.distrowatch.com/ for more info
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Justin
> 
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