9 Apr
2005
9 Apr
'05
8:53 a.m.
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
>>You really want to have a look at Debian and
apt.
I admit that Debian is a system to know, but stock Debian is not what I
was looking for. But there are so many Debian-based distros which have
IMO an added value.
I installed Kubuntu 5.04 last night, and it was very impressive. It is
the first distro which worked completely on my outdated Hauser laptop.
Slow, but 100% working. As opposed to SuSE and all other distros I
tried, it starts USB devices before setting the network up, meaning that
my USB-network card worked right away. Also, it is the first distro that
finds out that the BIOS on this machine has a broken ACPI implementation
and automatically reverts to APM. Wow!
Yes, stable may be outdated - but it's *stable*
and does it's job,
which is exactly what you want in a server.
The current stable is about to be replaced (woody -> sarge), sarge
is what I'm currently using on several desktops. It's quite recent,
it's quite stable, but still does move a bit (lots of stuff to
download when updating).
(K)Ubuntu has a release cycle of 6 months, that's a little more often
than stock Debian ;-)
-pu