As someone who has never used Vinux and hasn't used Ubuntu since around Lucid, the complaint about Vinux having fewer features might be related to bundled software. As someone who's quite comfortable with the command line and package management via Aptitude, I actually prefer distros that install only a bare minimum of software and being able to add what I need for my own use on top of a clean system and lament whenever a distro does away with a CD version, but for less experienced users, lots of preinstalled packages, even if most are things they'll never use, is important. Now, I have no idea what comes pre-installed on Vinux compared with whichever flavor of Ubuntu is being suggested as an alternative to Vinux, but if the Ubuntu flavor has more pre-installed stuff, that could potentially mean that flavor of Ubuntu can meet a larger number of use cases with a single one size fits most solution for enabling accessibility while Vinux is accessible out of the box, but requires more personal customization to satisfy the same number of use cases. Also, unless Vinux uses the Ubuntu repositories directly, it being based on Ubuntu is no guarantee it's repositories won't have vastly different contents, and even if Vinux uses the Ubuntu repositories or the Vinux repositories are a complete snapshot of the Ubuntu repositories aside from Vinux-specific alterations, there's always the possibility that Vinux-specific alterations will break something with a package that is identical to it's Ubuntu version, and Vinux will logically never be as thoroughly tested as whatever mainstream distro it's based on. -- Sincerely, Jeffery Wright President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa. Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list