On 9/28/05, James Polley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That will get him a Ubuntu system, not a Debian system. > > As much as Ubuntu is "based" on Debian, you are limited to Ubuntu's > > world and can't practically install packages from Debian. > > Not true. > > Ubuntu by default has a (disabled) repository called "Universe" which > contains all the packages in the standard debian tree..
I'm aware of this repository - as far as I understand this is basically lots of Debian packages compiled for Ubuntu. >From my experience, even with this repository enabled (and I suppose there is a reason why it's not enabled by default) on 5.04 I was missing the integration that equivalent debian packages provided. See in http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/components what Ubuntu promises about the level of support and guarentee that things from this repository will work. As I said before - I didn't do a research about it - I just installed Ubunutu 5.04 and though I liked many things I didn't feel "at home" with it. It wasn't a "Debian replacement". Maybe it got better since then (a few months ago). Cheers, --A -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
