On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:35 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > >>Debian on the other hand may be more complicated than I want. I wasn't [too] > >>encouraged when X took serious tweaking to get it to boot up. > >> > >> > > > >The main advantage for going "straight" Debian is when you need > >something that's not supported by the Ubuntu distro, and/or you are > >running a platform not supported by it. Ubuntu is limited to i386, > >"new-world" PPC and AMD64, whereas it seems like there's a Debian for > >just about everything. > > > > > commercial distributions feed the masses, debian is by the > people for the people. so if your running linux on <insert > more obscure or outdated hardware here> then other like > minded users (and possibly yourself) are maintaining things > for the hardware because they/you use it. that or a nice > package maintainer is cross compiling, which is just fine > and dandy as well ;) > > you may also find crux usefull, especially if your machine > will be filling a server roll. but, as ive mentioned many > times before - im very bsd = servers , linux = workstations > kind of man. > > Dean I have just recently installed Ubuntu on my Powerbook G4 and was very pleased with the fact that everything except the known issues worked after install: suspend and DRI are a nono (AlBook G4 - ATI 9600) after 1 line in fstab USB sticks work smooth sound's a-ok xserver runs nicely fonts are all available And on top of that - the config files are just like plain, good, old debian ;). So I like it as a starting point.
(ps: there is no development stuff on the computer after install - but its available on the repositories) Timo
