On Friday 09 September 2005 07:39 am, Josh Battles wrote: > antgel said: > > Josh Battles wrote: > >> I've got to agree with the others here that the IBM ThinkPad is a > >> wonderful laptop to run Debian on. I installed Ubuntu on my T42 > >> and it detected everything right out of the box and configured it > >> all correctly. The only thing I had to do was manually setup my > >> wifi card and the scroll button for the trackpoint device. > > > > Ubuntu Is Not Debian. > > Yes it is true that Ubuntu is not Debian, however since it is Debian > based I felt that this was a relevant response. Perhaps I should > have mentioned that I installed Sarge on it before I installed > Ubuntu, and had to do exactly the same amount of post-install > configuration with both distros.
I do think there is enough difference between Debian & Ubuntu, technically, that they need to have separate support, which each does. Ubuntu is diverging from Debian at, to me , a fast pace, it just used the .deb package system. It wouldn't suprise me if they stoped supporting dselect ;-) -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
