[Discuss] Debian versus Ubuntu

[John Blomfield]

I thought I might widen the discussion and add that I have never tried 
Ubuntu or Debian although I've browsed their web sites and decided they 
were not for me, particularly after trying Kbuntu and finding it too 
basic.  It seems the correct jargon is "dumbed down"?  But since you 
prefer KDE I suggest you try Fedora.  The default desktop in Fedora is 
Gnome but Fedora gives full support for KDE and for the "developer" 
KDevelop gives full support now (fairly recent) to the latest Qt4 
libraries. KDevelop is the only IDE I have found that is reliable for 
Qt4, C, C++ and even gtk and gtkmm (for the Gnomers). Fedora provides a 
very reliable package management GUI or you can use "yum" command line.  
The updates are regular, mostly stable and not too "bleeding edge" as 
with some distros but definitely not "out of date".  I used to run 
Mandrake but they started to want subscriptions for updates so I moved 
to Suse because of their default support for KDE but moved to Fedora 
when they also started to charge for update services. However, Mandrake 
and Suse both had very good administration systems.  One day I might 
give Debian a go but I need a non-critical Linux box to try it out on. 
All my hard drive slots are used up.

John Blomfield

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2007-10-26 17:38-0700 Brij Charan wrote:
>
>> hahaha
>>
>> Gotta love it when someone starts a thread with a subject line like 
>> this...
>
> For me the connotation of "versus" is not argumentative at all, it is 
> simply
> a comparison.  OTOH, two of you have now commented on that subject 
> line so I
> guess "versus" is more of a charged word than I thought.  Anyhow, if it
> makes you feel better, mentally translate the subject line to 
> "Comparison of
> Ubuntu and Debian" which is all that is meant by it.
>
> Also, I am sure there are plenty of Linux users here who like 
> simplified but
> less powerful interfaces or who have tried Debian and Ubuntu for 
> substantial
> periods of time like I have done so I expected to hear from them in this
> thread rather than it just being a one-off opinion piece.
>
> Alan
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