On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 12:16 -0600, Jeremiah Bess wrote: > Don't get me wrong, as long as Mandriva is around, I'll stick with it. > I have tried many distros, trying to find a reason one that was > superior to Mandriva. I haven't found any that have made me want to > switch. But in the event they do go under, I want to have some > alternatives in mind. > > Jeremiah E. Bess > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four The main reason I use Ubuntu is the amount of ready software packages it really has beyond the standard repositories.
Launchpad allows developers to create a PPA (Personal Program Archive) and if there is a update then it can be gotten through the PPA. Granted it requires the end user to add a lot of items to the sources list but that's pretty easy. Don't get me wrong there are some annoyances to Ubuntu but there are some with every distribution. I still have no love for the sudo thing and because of it can never see it as an enterprise desktop system, but it makes sense for a personal computer. Honestly though, it easy to customize though any distribution can be, Ubuntu really is easier than many others, though there are some easier they lack in available binaries and I hate having to compile because it requires me to find the dependencies manually. In many cases that leads to having to compile those as well. I have little time for that as I am pretty busy. Ubuntu works pretty much out of the box and I have had pretty good luck with it. I used Mandrake/Mandriva initially for Samba services and PCLOS for my desktop and switched to that for my personal servers as well. When I setup servers these days its CentOS or Redhat (I also used to use SUSE as well, but...) but for me personally Ubuntu and its derivatives just do and have what I need with far less hassle. Mandriva's business plan always lacked aggressiveness and I always thought that was a shame because overall its one of the best, especially in hardware support, but they were more interested in breaking into the desktop market, and never really developed their server market. YAST in SUSE was lacking compared to the Mandriva Control Center and Mandriva could have done well if they had just applied themselves to that market. Hopefully, if they get bought, the new owner will change their strategy and develop their server systems and bring them up to date. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
