At risk of spawning a distro-bashing.... On Saturday 21 November 2009 15:23:41 Brandon Pedersen wrote: > > Ubuntu is gross - http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7600/1.html This is too bad. My experience with both Ubuntu and Kubuntu were all good up until the adoption of KDE4. KDE4 left me cold and I'm still not fond of Gnome's PIM (Evolution.)
> Wow, I think this was the post I needed to get off Ubuntu and try > something else. I was having so many problems with Ubuntu 9.10 on my > laptop, even after doing a fresh install, I then tried openSuSE and I liked SuSE a lot 2 versions ago. But I desperately missed the apt-* package managing family. Yast and Yum just didn't do it for me. I went back to the basic, vanilla debian 5. Have you (or any other UUGer) got informed opinions of Debian Lenny (5?) Personally, I like the stability. I'm not ready for KDE4 until the KDEPIM (kpilot, kitchensync/opensync in particular) is debugged further. Most packages that I want (noteedit, xsane, firefox, lilypond, and gimp) are full featured enough that I don't miss the bleeding-edge stuff in (K/X/U)buntu. I'd like to have OpenOffice3, and maybe Amarok2, but not enough to leave Debian stable-branch. The proprietary packages (dvd-css and nvidia drivers) were easy enough to install. I really loved SourceMage a few years ago (2005, maybe) but their installers have gotten more cryptic and difficult. -- Mike F.
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