How's Ubuntu?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2005-07-30 07:45pm

It's been getting big amongst distros I heard. So how does it compare to the other major distros?

bilateralrope · Post by **bilateralrope** » 2005-07-30 09:18pm

I have no real experience with other distros so I can't comment much on that. The reason I chose ubuntu was that they will ship you out factory made install disks for free to anywhere in the world, meaning I didn't have to bother with downloading the isos or burning them to cd (that is an option).

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-07-31 01:31am

It is a pretty good distribution, though newer than the Mandrake/SuSE/Fedora triumverate. It is also based on Debian, which is a plus in some people's books.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2005-07-31 01:40am

Most stuff's released in RPM though I hear. Is Ubuntu better for the average user though? Or is that hard to say?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2005-07-31 05:55am

It's a Debian based distro, so it's .deb based, not RPM. I was running Debutu for awhile (Debian+Ubuntu repositories), but downgraded to straight Debian due to the poor stability. Then again, I was running their "unstable" distro which was probably more unstable than Debian's equivalent "unstable."