On 17 Nov 2005, at 18:19, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I am a big fan of Debian and all its progeny. The package
management is awesomely flexible and so many of the packages really
set themselves up these days. Its only getting better.Ubuntu seems to be a really good way to start with Debian.
Only problem with Ubuntu is its non-debian packages (as in, they have
their own), which may make your life a little difficult. A solution
is to add debian sources (repositories of packages) to Ubuntu's
Synaptic package management application, but actually, it's worth
just using Debian from the start. Caveat: Ubuntu had some really
smart bunnies working for it, and its install will catch most
hardware (except Acer laptops, as reported recently here); so, unless
you -know- your hardware is Linux supported, maybe you do want to
start on Ubuntu first.
d
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