On Thursday 31 August 2006 03:06 pm, Tom Horsley wrote: > > I'll never understand what Ubuntu has that other distributions > > don't. > > I haven't run Ubuntu, but just glancing at the web page after > this thread started, I see one thing that makes it seem > very appealing: It appears to be only one distribution. > No confusing "enterprise", "workstation", "desktop", > "consumer", "commercial" qualifiers on 16,721 different > flavors of the product with different confusing levels > of support. Redhat is bad enough along these lines, > but SUSE is just insane with all their SLED and SLES, > and desktop and enterprise and open versions (and the > CD media having different content than the DVD media > which is different in the shrink wrap box than it is on > the ISO downloads and they are all different than > the network install - my suspicion is the folks > at SUSE have no idea what is in all their releases :-). > > With Ubuntu there appears to be just one distribution, and you can > buy commercial support or not, but it is all the same. > > No suspicions that the free users are just beta testing > the commercial system, or the commercial users have access > to secret goodies. Any updates fix bugs for both at the > same time. > > No confusing decisions to make about which distribution is > the one you need. I can see why it would be attractive. I'm running the x86--64 version of Ubuntu it is a nice distro ...except the lack of a root password worries me using sudo just seems unsafe not to mention the compiling of a program from source is evidently much different if you tar -xzvf <filename>.tar.bz then try a ./configure itr fscks up
