Hi, to answer first to the title of the thread, I really feel like although opensuse is a good idea, Novell seems to have some trouble handling its newly acquired distro. Debian is indeed the closest thing to a community distro (let's not forget Slackware and others though) or more exactly a community non-distribution as it refuses to be one distribution only; however, I don't agree with Daniel on Ubuntu. It seems, and I hope to be wrong, that Ubuntu is willingly not maintaining package compatibility with Debian and the rest of the derivatives; besides I see the opening of the Ubuntu foundation as a tentative to oppose the Debian/SPI organization; but once again I hope to wrong. Note to Chad: Debian is sometimes difficule to set up and lags sometimes behind other distros in terms of packages updates; but go and ask to a developper what he prefers: debs or rpms. rpms are in a constant mess, and are not compatible towards each other (see RH rpm, Suse rpm, Mandriva rpm, etc.)Debian distros benefit from a much healthier structure. Best, Charles.
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 14:06 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Chad Smith wrote: > > > Debian is teh suck. Those deb packages are always like 3 or 4 releases > > behind the rest of the world. > > Perhaps you should try reading my email next time. :-) I talked about > having a series of distros branched off from Debian. For example, Ubuntu > has the latest release of everything. > > > Whatever the other kind is called that uses the rpm, you know, the ones > > that are up-to-date - that's the kind I like. > > And now you're just showing your ignorance. :-) > > It's really silly to think that whether packages are recent or old has > something to do with the package manager. Ubuntu, Linspire, Libranet and > others are Debian distros with updated packages. Ubuntu is *very* up to > date btw. > > Cheers, > Daniel.
