Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > I read your off-list mail. I didn't read your last mail to the list to > the end, because it's to long. You ask me to stop, I stopped. Yes, I > could name a developer, but it doesn't make sense, he's very kind. I > don't like to fight a battle with you. > > I only tried to make clear that there are differences, neither the one > nor the other distro is better or less good.
Of course there are differences. That I didn´t find the comparisons useful was the exact point I made. A perception I made is that Debian developers tends to follow upstream quite closely: I.e. take it verbatim. A – I admit – dated comparison: I installed a Kubuntu for my father once. It had some KDE SC 3.x. I also installed a Debian Lenny I think at that time. It also had KDE SC 3.x. The Lenny install was not able to digest the KDE configuration files from the Kubuntu install nicely. Kubuntu had something patched into the control panel that wasn´t there in Debian. And then back then they already defaulted to Dolphin as standard file manager, even though at that time it wasn´t official part of core KDE packages! I disagreed with that choice, cause back then Dolphin was not yet as usable and polished as now. But some may have liked this. I dunno whether Kubuntu still adapts KDE quite much. But as a hint to Mike: With Debian you get a KDE SC thats – at least in my impression – is quite close to upstream and carries only little adaptions. That said, it may well include bugfixes and stuff not in the upstream function, but in my impression it is neither changed much regarding its appearance or features. So if you expect a somewhat "pimped" KDE SC, you might be better off with another distro. The biggest change right now I think is that Debian still carries KDEPIM 1 as of KDE SC 4.4.11. For me the Debian approach works well. May be due that I like the KDE SC stuff from upstream. :) > However, the OP perhaps will update and when his Debian than should be > borked others will claim, that the OP missed to read changelogs, that the > OP shouldn't have used this or that DE etc.. I'm just warning that it's > not that easy. Different distros, different drawbacks and advantages. I got the impression that Mike knows how to help himself :) I usually run my Debian systems with apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges :) -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- 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/201301271707.38418.mar...@lichtvoll.de
