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That's nice to be sure, but if I'm not mistaken, Linux as a whole was
created by Linus Torvalds, a free man. That would include most, if not
all, of the distributions today. Windows was created by a team of free
men and women in Redmond, WA. They were free to work for MS or someone
else...but they decided in their free will to work for MS.
Interestingly enough, one of the FREE men who was a lead designer of NT
now is the CTO at a Linux company. He left MS under his own free will
to go somewhere else. I don't mean to sound pompous, but what I was looking for were technical reasons to use Ubuntu, not religious reasons. Jay Jesus Amorin wrote: why ubuntu? it a functional system created by free men.Pablo Manalastas wrote:I use Ubuntu (now version 7.04) because it is the only distro that works with the Realtek 8187 Wireless on my Neo laptop. All other distros require me to build from source (rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net), and oftentimes, the build fails (on most distros). On the other hand, it is already pre-built into Ubuntu, and supports WEP, WEP-less, and WPA. I don't like Ubuntu (I am forced to use it), because like Debian (its parent), it does not have very good support for program development. In Fedora, all that one has to do is check the box for "Development" during installation, and everything that the programmer needs for most of his development work is auto-pulled into the installation. On the other hand, for Ubuntu/Debian, one has to manually know and check in "synaptic" all those utilities like: g++, fortran95 (for gmp), autoconf, automake, gettext, bison, flex, tetex, xdvi, glade, tcl, tk, and several dozen other packages that I am sure I have forgotten (like kernel headers), that one needs for programming in C/C++/Java/Apache-MySQL-Perl. On my laptop, I have Ubuntu. On the desktop at home, I have Fedora 7. PManalastas */"David R. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: All, I am writing this because I am thoroughly confused by something. I have tried Ubuntu each release since v5. I have to tell you, when it comes to distros, I do not care for it. Let me be clearer...I can't stand it. With so many distros already out there, why Ubuntu? Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mandriva and Debian all have excellent desktop and server apps. Why Ubuntu? I don't understand this cult-like following, but am willing to listen. Would anyone be willing to help me understand what makes this distro so popular? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph |
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