<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org" target="_blank">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Strongly disagree; I find the packaging on Ubuntu to be extremely<br>
frustrating. Not including rz/sz as a requirement for minicom? &^@*&$^<br>
That is just the one a recall off the top of my head, Ubuntu does a<br>
terrible job at declaring reasonable/realistic dependencies for<br>
packages.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> Like Suse, Ubuntu is geared toward newbies.<br>
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</div>I don't believe either distribution is geared toward newbies, I do<br>
believe some people associated with each distribution believe that they<br>
are. :)</blockquote><div><br><br>Ubuntu is geared towards mainstream
users; Linux for human beings, not kernel-compiling cyborgs. I've
noticed that many hardcore Linux guys have problems with getting Ubuntu
to behave with crufty old programs like minicom or with non-mainstream
desktop environments like Fluxbox or Awesome. In my opinion, people who
need these things should be running something less "friendly", like
Debian. If you want a Linux that is easy to install, update, and use
for everyday tasks, then Ubuntu is the right one for you! <br>
<br><br></div></div><br>-- <br> Ben Rousch<br> <a href="mailto:brousch@gmail.com" target="_blank">brousch@gmail.com</a><br> <a href="http://ishmilok.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ishmilok.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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