arctic Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 (edited) i doubt that ubuntu will run out of money... multi-millionaire mark shuttleworth and canonical are behind ubuntu... so ... BIG money uh... and about the "she"... it is (sadly) still rather seldom to find a female on tech-boards. so welcome Edited February 6, 2005 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 (edited) Welcome fellow Cheesehead. :D Ubuntu is a wonderful distro to use. I have kde running with not problems here. Edited February 6, 2005 by FX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 Ubuntu isn't going to run out of $. Without going into details, I know that ;) Ubuntu is just debian unstable with tweaks and increased stability. It rose so fast because of the $ being put into it. How often have we said that it all linux needs is some good backing marketing? ;) If you want to try it gnoppix and ubuntu colaborated so get a gnoppix livecd. Free, and free shipping if you don't wanna download and burn it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 Fedora Core 3 :deal: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a13x Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 Ubuntu isn't going to run out of $. Without going into details, I know that wink.gif Ubuntu is just debian unstable with tweaks and increased stability. It rose so fast because of the $ being put into it. How often have we said that it all linux needs is some good backing marketing? wink.gif If you want to try it gnoppix and ubuntu colaborated so get a gnoppix livecd. Free, and free shipping if you don't wanna download and burn it. If Linux received the funds winblows gets for development it would put Gates out of bussiness real soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 Fedora Core 3 :deal: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> - Not based on Debian - My own personal encounter with FC3 wasn't that wonderful... it started out wonderful but after a while things started going wrong. Maybe it's just me, but I went back to Suse anyway. - But I agree you can learn a lot with the distro; and documentation is probably good as well I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 If Linux received the funds winblows gets for development it would put Gates out of bussiness real soon. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yeah, but then we wouldn't have someone to blame for blue-screens :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 Ubuntu isn't going to run out of $. Without going into details, I know that wink.gif Ubuntu is just debian unstable with tweaks and increased stability. It rose so fast because of the $ being put into it. How often have we said that it all linux needs is some good backing marketing? wink.gif If you want to try it gnoppix and ubuntu colaborated so get a gnoppix livecd. Free, and free shipping if you don't wanna download and burn it. If Linux received the funds winblows gets for development it would put Gates out of bussiness real soon. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Mark Shuttleworth is a Billion dollar dude so Ubuntu isn't strapped for cash :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 Fedora Core 3 :deal: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> - Not based on Debian - My own personal encounter with FC3 wasn't that wonderful... it started out wonderful but after a while things started going wrong. Maybe it's just me, but I went back to Suse anyway. - But I agree you can learn a lot with the distro; and documentation is probably good as well I guess <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It was you She said she would like something deb based, not had to be :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heather1113 Posted February 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 Mark Shuttleworth is a Billion dollar dude so Ubuntu isn't strapped for cash :P <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I am so glad, I was feeling a little guilty for having them send me a disk for free. Well after doing some more reading Libranet is out since it doesn't seem like new releases are coming out very often. Then again maybe I am just spoiled by Mandrake. I am going to try both Ubuntu and Mepis and see which one I like best. I will post back to let you all know what I thought if you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 I'm myself an ubuntu fanboy so I'll recommend it. You could also try Yoper (wait 'till v2.2 there's a pre I've been told). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 If I was going to use a debian based distro I would swing to ubuntu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 (edited) After some traveling around various distros I've come back to MDK. It's not bad. Though I'd prefer a apt-get/debian distro, but Ubuntu at the current state is too unusable for KDE (Gnome artefacts in KDE env). At least for me. So I'm sticking with MDK. Libranet 3.0 will come out soon, so I'll try it then. p.s. There is a KUbuntu in development too. KDE based Ubuntu. I'd use Debian, but the installation scares me and I don't have a test box. Edited February 11, 2005 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heather1113 Posted February 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 After some traveling around various distros I've come back to MDK. It's not bad. Though I'd prefer a apt-get/debian distro, but Ubuntu at the current state is too unusable for KDE (Gnome artefacts in KDE env). At least for me. So I'm sticking with MDK. Libranet 3.0 will come out soon, so I'll try it then. p.s. There is a KUbuntu in development too. KDE based Ubuntu. I'd use Debian, but the installation scares me and I don't have a test box. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you so much for telling me. I had really wanted to try Libranet but 2.8 is at least a year old so I will definitely wait for 3.0. I can't wait, I'll have to go to the site and find out more and maybe preorder or something. I don't think i will ever stop using Mandrake since I really do like it but I am craving a new challenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 After some traveling around various distros I've come back to MDK. It's not bad. Though I'd prefer a apt-get/debian distro, but Ubuntu at the current state is too unusable for KDE (Gnome artefacts in KDE env). At least for me. So I'm sticking with MDK. Libranet 3.0 will come out soon, so I'll try it then. p.s. There is a KUbuntu in development too. KDE based Ubuntu. I'd use Debian, but the installation scares me and I don't have a test box. errm... i think the fastest way to get a kde-based debian desktop is downloading the kanotix-live cd and do a hard-disk install (very easy, explained on their homepage). you will get a basic 1:1 debian system installed on your box that can be upgraded later via apt-get just the way you like it. and hardware detection is very good (kantoix is based on knoppix/debian). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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