[LUNI] Ever heard of SimplyMEPIS Linux?

[Martin Maney]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:54:50AM -0700, sean-lynch at sean-lynch.com wrote:
> If your had been a debian guy instead of a slackware guy 
> you would find Ubuntu frustrating. It's kind of like a 
> crippled version of debian with lots of eye candy.

Well, I started out with Slack, but switched to Debian back around
1997.  I don't have a clue what you mean by "crippled".  There are
obvious differences in the style of the two distros, and that's
reflected even in the base install package sets ("server" install for
Ubuntu) somewhat.  As for the desktop, my impression is that Ubuntu
doesn't have more eye candy as such, it's just more that's installed
and working out of the box.  For most desktop users, this is 100% a
plus (and that's why I haven't had any desktops running Debian since...
uhm, has it been a year and a half, now?  I think it must be, since
Dapper was an in-place upgrade on all the boxes here.  How time flies!)

> I should clarify that I find Ubuntu frustrating because I 
> have habits built using debian. Then I try Ubuntu and my 
> habits don't match the way Ubuntu is set up. I can take 
> the time to change Ubuntu to conform to my habits, but 
> then solutons from the Ubuntu community may no longer work 
> for me.

I remember being annoyed about the sudo thing.  I still notice it on
occasion when I want to login to do remote maintenance on Cally's
desktop machine, but it's nearly second nature.  I have no idea what
building a customized kernel is like under Ubuntu, since I no longer
feel compelled to do so (maybe because the distro kernel is no longer a
year or two old on average <grin>).  Everything else is either just the
same (I still prefer aptitude to any other package management tool in
all but corner cases; it still works just like on the servers running
Sarge) or is different because I stopped resisting Gnome and all its
petty annoyances (as well as its good features) when I switched the
desktop boxes to Ubuntu.

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