On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 03:30:15PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why SuSE > Why Ubuntu > > Any useful stuff, I'll put on my wiki. Any flames to trash. > For me, I have a paying customer who wants Ubuntu and does NOT want SuSE. > As I struggled with the paradigms shift (from SuSE to Ubuntu) many people > have > been majorly helpful - thanks guys: > > Suse Ubuntu > ------------------------------------ > ----------------------------------------- > Easy for simple desktop Easy for simple desktop > > Easy for complex server Hard for complex server > eg Firewall, MASQ, tun setup & routing
Isn't there a ubuntu server distro? > > Sysadmin works, is easy, is nice Sysadmin patchy, some works, some does > not > eg system -> administration -> services > see tricks later: update-rc.d There's also a bunch of other ways of doing these things. Like sysvconfig and others. It's just not very well integrated I guess. > > RPM is usually easy and lots of info apt-get is very easy > is available about installed not detailed info about packages > packages, changed packages, eg apt-get install kubuntu-desktop adds > 800M > contents of packaghes apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop dels > 40K !! apt-get is kind of a lower level tool. Using aptitude, in both command line and GUI mode (run without arguments) will give you detailed info. If you use aptitude to install, and then remove, it will also take all the dependencies with it. So you won't get the problem with kubuntu-desktop. > > multimedia possible multimedia easy - easyubuntu > > KDE Very clear and obvious Gnome Full of undocumented (obviously) > tricks > (not really SuSE, but all eg ^L to list hidden files > all of SuSE seems to be (not really ubuntu, but see > comment re SuSE) > KDE minded despite Gnome eg update-rc.d > being the default choice now > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I must admit, I use Debian, but Ubuntu is Debian based. Further discussion would be interesting and much appreciated. Byron -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
