On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:58:18 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 27 April 2010 02:50:08 Thomas Pomber wrote: >> Yo Debian, I'm happy for you, and I'ma gonna let you finish, but Ubuntu is >> the greatest operating system of all time! > > I don't find that "joke" funny. It's not offensive or anything, just the > context is all messed up. >> >> Or not! What do you think lol? > > I prefer Debian because more packages are well-maintained under main. Ubuntu > provides good support for universe, I guess. But, the fact that Ubuntu feels > those packages need to be separated just demonstrates that they are "second- > class". > > Ubuntu LTS is my second choice, and something I recommend if it is likely > that > the user wants a commercial support contract. I find the package manager > that > Ubuntu shares with Debian to be enough of an advantage to put it above other > solutions like RHEL or SLE(D/S). > > I am comfortable enough to use and maintain RHEL and SLE(S/D) in fairly > simple > environments, if the user has some specific need for one of those systems. > That's rare, but is often related to third-party hardware or software being > certified with one of those.
Your comparison and contrast of different distributions of Linux is interesting, Boyd; but please don't feed the troll. It only encourages him. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/485523199.29342.1272394168605.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com