On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 19:57 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 21:10 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > There's a lot of talk around the Linux camp about Ubuntu: why? I've read > > some reviews about it and a few snippets here and there of users > > opinions on it, but I still don't get it. Ubuntu, to me, extends on the Fedora mantra of "Just Works" Debian Style. That's it. TO me anyway. > > Their was a similar fanfare with Knoppix - which was likely deserved, > it's a great 1 CD distro, and there was a similar fanfare over gentoo - > which is interesting but imho only suitable if you run a desktop and > have time, and there was a similar fanfare over the now defunct Rock > Linux. I resent that. Time may be something that you need a lot of in the beginning but when it's all set up, it's all a breeze. No worry about the 9-18 months support cycle either. Besides, I went the Gentoo Path because it's education value is second to none. (1st would be LFS - Linux From Scratch) > I don't personally use Debian or Gentoo, but I value from them because > sometimes when I can't get something to compile, I can steal a patch > from them. I tried Gentoo because it works from a cdrom and GNOME is my > preferred environment, but I actually prefer Knoppix for "live" distro > because it is (imho) better put together - more mature, despite using > the desktop that I'm not quite as fond of (though it has gotten a lot > better than when I initially switched from KDE to GNOME) > Knoppix is the Mom of all liveCDs I would have to say. I keep a copy in my laptop bag. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:22:21 up 18:57, 8 users, load average: 0.56, 0.81, 0.64
