27 Nov
2011
27 Nov
'11
1:21 a.m.
On 15/10/11 17:46, Duane wrote:
On 15/10/11 15:50, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
The biggest con with ubuntu is their focus on tablets and mobile
computing, to the detriment of even desktops, why on earth would you
stuff about with the init just to have a pretty splash image on
servers, generally speaking you want to see the full output during
boot if there is any problems, and the rest of the time a monitor
might not even be plugged in. I currently have 2 ubuntu virtuals and a
desktop left and I'm in the middle of planning to migrate them to
debian I've had enough of problems with upgrades, and the constant
push to make everything dumbed down and mac looking.
The reason for using ubuntu in the first place was so that I had a
computer that just worked, I don't get any kind of enjoyment at fixing
nvidia blobs every time I upgrade either, but ubuntu have finally gone
far enough that their system no longer just works, but just breaks
instead.
Looks like the ones producing Mint get it, they've made an extension for
gnome 3 to make it act like gnome 2
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/26/2259231/linux-mint-12-released-tod…
Ubuntu
Cons:
- Security releases. The Debian security team seem to ship patches
first and the Ubuntu ones lag a bit.
I would also add that ubuntu main repository
(I mean the main
branch/component)
is smaller than debian's main. So if you use a bunch of
software/packages from
universe/multiverse/etc, don't expect security updates, response to
bug reports or
anything like that. Universe in ubuntu is mostly an "import" from
debian archive
at the time the release was made, and that's it.
The release notes are more "desktop oriented" and there is little, if
any, note
for servers. Debian's release note are way more complete and detailed.
Also, the upgrade procedure in ubuntu is sometimes, IMHO, kind of
invasive and
you have to restore some of your configs, or remove packages or
something like
that. Nothing terrible, but I think it shouldn't be needed.