-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 04:33:58AM +0530, amir khan wrote:
(Please keep the Debian user mailing list in the loop. First of all, there are lots of people there far more knowledgeable than me, thus raising the probability for you to get good help, second the results of your quest are there in the archives to help other people There is already a longer thread in the mailing list about your question. If you aren't subscribed, you can see it here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/11/msg00988.html And oh, if you are not subscribed, please tell us to keep you in copy, so you don't miss any annswers). > Yes Tomas, I tried all those listed for India. But it didn't work. Hope to > get it done the other way round(by using the mirror redirect service). > And also, I'm new to the debian and linux world and I'm going to use it for > Virtualization purposes(my final year project based on it). So , I just > want to know that, why to install debian linux distribution if I can get it > done on Ubuntu too. I'm a bit confused, please guide me. Thanks ! Well, those are two questions: Archives: the other archives in India: I don't know about the reachability of those archives. I asked just to find out wheter it could be that this one specific archive is down *or* whether you have more generic network problems. Since now you tried several archives, if I were in your place I'd try to find out whether your freshly installed VM has access to the Internet at all. Pick one of the archives which failed: can you access it from your browser? Debian vs Ubuntu Ubuntu is a Debian derivative, specially aimed at desktop users who have less experience with Unix/Linux. Some tools are more polished, some packages are newer. If you really want to tinker, Debian offers more possibilities. That said, the differences are not that big, and there are many tinkerers using Ubuntu and many "end-users" using Debian. It's free software, that means that each project can (and does) pick good things from the other. Since Debian is an open distribution, there are many Debian derivatives. regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlg6z9IACgkQBcgs9XrR2kb5cgCfTHRko+ANt7pepuCVDHLUxib9 EHYAnj4ZnjUZxgN8b7P3pHOvaXvsLCFC =aghL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
