On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:42:16 +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, den 26.10.2004, 15:17 +0200 schrieb Alex Polite: > > So what's with this Ubuntu thing? > > > > I've read some reviews but they're all geared towards Mandrake users. > > > > How does it compare to the Debian unstable that I'm used to? > > This is a personally opinion: > > I tried it, since I have an AMD64 and I am not happy with Debian-pure64. > > Ubuntu was not bad, but I do not like it's "I-decide-for-you"-style, > i.e. it asks not enough questions during installation, has no
you can specify 'custom' at install boot time and get a console only install. i think it's equiv is expert26 in the original d-i. see: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/installation-custom or set DEBCONF_PRIORITY like the regular debian d-i (not listed in the ubuntu Fn help screens at install boot, but it seemed to work as expected when i tried it....) if you want seven web browsers, you're free to apt-get the others :) or stick with a pure-debian install. with so many choices available, their selections for the "one" app per task won't mesh with everybody's personal preference. userlinux is the same way. for a distribution like this, i found that the cobind (fedora-based) desktop ( www.cobind.com ) was pretty slick (it was also my first experience with xfce4). they're a little slow getting up-to-date (it's fc1-based and fc3 is nearly out the door). i love apt, so i installed a sarge desktop with a very similar package set (xfce4, firefox/thunderbird, abiword/gnumeric, gdm, synaptic, nautilus, etc), and came up with a desktop even my mother can use. :) > automatically-something-tool. And at the end of installation I found > myself with postfix instead of exim. userlinux and ubuntu are similiar ( www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/userlinux ), it's unfortunate that they both chose postfix. i wouldve prefered the debian default exim for ubuntu as well. haven't tried swapping out postfix for exim yet, but will when i scrounge up another text box (ubnutu made way for another test run of a recent d-i daily on this one). also would've preferred abiword/gnumeric to openoffice and thunderbird instead of evolution on a personal desktop. ubuntu's selections make more sense in a business environment however. the number of "ubuntu-nized" packages kinda scares me.. i think there's too many customized packages (like xandros), which makes it harder to pull packages from the regular debian repositories if desired. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
