On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 01:17:40PM +0000, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On 5/17/09, Jacob Todd <jaketodd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:55:27PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > > > As to Ubuntu, you can say what you like, but at least for me the > > > maintenance time reduced dramatically after going from Debian to > > > Ubuntu on the 5-6 machines I maintain. And that is something I > > > appreciate, not how small space I can get a distribution to use... > > > > > > > The time it takes you to go from one version Ubuntu to another takes less > > time > > than upgrading a Debian machine? I don't think so. > > > > Saying Ubuntu is faster than Debian or vice versa is like saying a > green wagon is faster than a blue wagon. They're the same thing, and > most of my admin time is spent undoing the stupid changes to upstream > code.
I agree. I use Ubuntu, because its release cycles are shorter, but prefer Debian over Ubuntu, because Debian aims to be a free GNU/Linux Distribution while Ubuntu does not (some software Canonical produces is released as proprietary software). However, I don't see a big difference between Debian and Ubuntu for non-GNOME users. I was quite happy with CRUX until I had some clashes with the developers. Regards, Matthias-Christian
