Re: OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

wj wrote:

Cons:
* Setting up a development environment in order to build applications
and drivers takes a little more time, it's not an install option

apt-get install build-tools # or some such
You can also apt-get build-deps netatalk # or similar, I'm not close enough to check.

One does need broadband for greatest effficiency.

* Things are different the FC/RedHat, you have to learn a new set of
configuration tools and such.

More strictly, packaging tools. One used dpkg rather than rpm, and apt-get is a better wrapper for dpkg than yum or up2date is for rpm.

Interesting:
Ubuntu does not create a root account by default. It setup to use sudo
for everything. I am not experienced enough with administration to know
if this is a good thing or not. I do know that it is convenient for some
things but does cause problems with some applications that require root
access. For example, ethereal did not work for me after installing it

Did you run it from a menu? If so, report it as a bug.
this should work:
sudo ethereal

because of root access issues. It's probably not hard to fix but takes
time to find the solution.

I am going to switch back to FC because I am familiar with it. I did not
find anything compelling enough to justify the time to learn the new way
of doing things. Ubuntu would probably be easier for novice users who
just want to do email, word processing, desktop publishing, etc.

For me, it's support life is too short for serious machines (eg servers), and there is too much important software outside the support framework. I don't want to go hunting down security alerts for software in "universe" - most of U.

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Cheers
John

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