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Re: OT: Linus or annother Linus?
de Mark Warner 04/25/2006 05:24
Kalle Piirainen wrote:
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> Firstly I must state that this is not a flame. After that was sorted
> out; I can get to asking why MEPIS, Ubuntu and such get such a lot good
> attention, especially in this goup? As I understand, these are just
> derivatives of Debian? Of course as a winnt user I don't have experience
> in this field, but recently I've considered switching and done some
> research.
If I had to sum it up, I'd call SimplyMEPIS and Ubuntu and their ilk
"Debian Made Easy".
> It kinda seems to me that Debian would be the most stable, versatile,
> cumstomizable general distribution for the hobbyist, am I wrong? Then
> again, especially for large network environments and pros, for example
> SLES and Novell distros. And of course SuSe and good ol' Red Hat seem to
> be most commonly supported driver-wise, at least by hardware
> manufacturers ?
No argument from me.
> I've tried Ubuntu Live (3.1 and 4) a couple of times and it didn't
> impress me that much. First of all it doesn't seem work with Intel ICH5
> RAID. Without trying I can't say how wonderful MEPIS truly is, but I'd
> suspect that it isn't the best choice for every situation :)
Things have changed drastically in just the last year. Two-year -old
versions aren't in the same league as what is now available.
Best choice for every situation? Of course not. But for someone wanting
to migrate from Windows for general computing, it's hard to beat.
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Mark Warner
SimplyMEPIS 6.0 Experimental
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