OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

[John Summerfied]

wj wrote:

> 
> Cons:
> * Setting up a development environment in order to build applications
> and drivers takes a little more time, it's not an install option
apt-get install build-tools # or some such
You can also apt-get build-deps netatalk # or similar, I'm not close 
enough to check.

One does need broadband for greatest effficiency.

> * Things are different the FC/RedHat, you have to learn a new set of
> configuration tools and such.
More strictly, packaging tools. One used dpkg rather than rpm, and 
apt-get is a better wrapper for dpkg than yum or up2date is for rpm.

> 
> Interesting:
> Ubuntu does not create a root account by default. It setup to use sudo
> for everything. I am not experienced enough with administration to know
> if this is a good thing or not. I do know that it is convenient for some
> things but does cause problems with some applications that require root
> access. For example, ethereal did not work for me after installing it

Did you run it from a menu? If so, report it as a bug.
this should work:
sudo ethereal

> because of root access issues. It's probably not hard to fix but takes
> time to find the solution.
> 
> I am going to switch back to FC because I am familiar with it. I did not
> find anything compelling enough to justify the time to learn the new way
> of doing things. Ubuntu would probably be easier for novice users who
> just want to do email, word processing, desktop publishing, etc.

For me, it's support life is too short for serious machines (eg 
servers), and there is too much important software outside the support 
framework. I don't want to go hunting down security alerts for software 
in "universe" - most of U.





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