Graham Percival wrote:
Not really. Ubuntu is debian, minus a working package system[1],
minus a decent initial install[2], plus hordes of newbies[3].
[1] I consider the "package system" to be the package manager
software -- which I admit is (virtually) identical in Debian and
Ubuntu -- plus the community of package maintainers. Debian's
package maintainers are miles ahead of ubuntu's, redhat's,
freebsd's, etc.
Does this mean that, for instance, Debian's repo will have more
up-to-date versions of things like texi2html and fontforge? I've had
problems with outdated versions of certain packages on Ubuntu. I've
used Ubuntu for 18+ months now, and it was my first Linux distro. It
was a good way to get started because in general things just work. I'm
much more advanced now and am considering something like Arch or Debian.
I wiped my Windows partition yesterday (now I can't test any Lilypond
issues on Windows anymore...) to install xubuntu 9.04 and see if it's
ready to use as my main system yet, but I might turn right around and
try Debian on that partition. I've been curious about it for a while.
BTW I hear that Linux Mint (an Ubuntu derivative) is even more
noob-friendly b/c it contains all the proprietary drivers and media
codecs already and you don't have to go hunting around for them. Grab
the (indecent) Live CD and give it a spin. ;)
Jon
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