Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
paul wisehart wrote:
Its frustrating how fractured linux has become.
(But, maybe it always was.)
Switching distros *IS* a solution.
Switching distros *IS* a solution that should only
happen *ONCE* because your switching from a bad distro.
Yep, I switched from some RPM based distro to Debian about
5 years ago. I now use both Debian and Ubuntu which are so
similar its not really valid to treat them as separate
distros.
I don't know exactly how accurate this is wrt debian vs ubuntu, but
perhaps it would be useful to think of debian-based distros more in the
sense of the relation that demudi has to debian proper. That is to say
that the ubuntus and demudis and knoppixes, etc, etc, etc, are more
customized ways of getting a debian system installed or running than
separate fractured distros. They are like the various development
branches of the kernel, or any other large project, in a sense. They
exist because they are useful to a certain subset of the main project's
users and because they allow certain subsets of needs and problems to be
worked out.
In the ideal world view those branched efforts will get folded back into
the mainline project once the issues are sorted out.
just my two cents, hopefully furthering Erik's point.
-Eric Rz.
