Josh Scilacci wrote:
I installed ubuntu on one my machines to try it out and it seemed pretty solid. As stated it is just Debian but with security updates and app updates. You can comment out some lines and you pull from all the apt bases. It has a pretty big user base and it keeps growing. There are some pretty good posts about it on the Gentoo forums (forums.gentoo.org) explaining some more details about it.
The only downfall about it I have heard is that the user forums are less then helpfull to new users.
Josh
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Thanks, Josh. I really noticed the same thing about stability. Where Xandros 3's desktop crashes now and then (when XFM crashes), Nautilus 2.8.1 seems much more stable in a mixed network environment. It has done nothing so far that would lead me to believe otherwise. I will move my Linux distro at work to Ubuntu.
I remember looking into the Gnome / KDE architectural differences in '98. At that time, Gnome was less stable than KDE (in my experience). But Gnome was designed from the ground up to be an integrated desktop/network system. As I recall, KDE took some flack about the lack of integration in more than a few reviews at that time. I'm not sure the distinctions are as clear today as they seemed to be back then (because I just don't know any better). I liked KDE better then... But those days are over. I have become a Gnome fan. My testing at home has demonstrated that Gnome seems to work better for me in a Windows 2000 Server dominant environment. KDE works, but seems more clunky, like the networking is not as tightly integrated. I'm just babbling here, but the bottom line is, I have been given the green light by my boss to use Linux if I can still do my job with it. I intend to do just that. I work for Fluke, so we have an enormous domain ... naturally, it's 99+% Windows. There are now 8 *nix users- 7 in Everett, WA and one in CC, NV. :-)
Thanks! This group is an enormous help.
-Gary
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