T Murray wrote: > I know a lot of you use Ubuntu, I currently use Debian (etch) but am a > little hesitant to move across to Ubuntu as I dont fully understand what the > difference is (apart from multimedia appearing to be easier to set up).
I use Ubuntu on my most recently acquired laptop and my recently setup work machince. I anduse/used Debian on my previous laptop and home desktop top machines (one for me and one for my wife). > What are the main differences between the two on the command line? Very very little. > I hear there is no root access??? Like Jeff said, you can do 99% of everything you do as root with sudo, and you can still have a root account for the rest. > (i) Because Ubuntus better and Personally I don't think Ubuntu is better, nor is it worse, they are just slightly different. Ubuntu has regular 6 month release cycles while Debian stable has a much longer release cycle and Debian testing is in a sort of constant update state. In this regard, I actually think Ubuntu has the lead here. One aspect where Debian has a definite advantage is the reportbug utility and why that tool feels straight into the Debian bug tracking tool. The reportbug utility is simply a mile ahead of any web based bug entry tool. On ubuntu I *really* miss this. In fact, when I find bugs in Ubuntu, I have twice verified that the bug exists on Debian and then report the bug there instead. Jeff, are you listening? I know we've spoken about this before. And if this has been fixed in Dapper please slap me with a box of Dapper disks :-). > (ii) Setting up multimedia is easier. To a certain extent this is true. HTH, Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Perl as a language has less a design than a thousand special features flying in close formation." -- From the c2 wiki -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
