OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

John Summerfied debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed May 11 14:33:05 UTC 2005


Charles E Taylor IV wrote:

> 
> This is probably mainly because Debian's been doing the repository thing
> longer than Red Hat, and they just have more software packaged up and
> ready to go ...
It's mainly because Debian isn't constrained by the commercial reality 
that it costs money to document, package, distribute and support tbis stuff.

Canonical says "if it's not on the CD it's not supported, but if you 
want to fry yourself here are some fine tools."



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