[OT] Ubuntu 8.10: headaches and nothing else.

GIRARD Damien dam-pro.girard at laposte.net
Sun Dec 7 06:29:43 EST 2008


Personnaly, I hate Ubuntu.

As Linux user, my favorites distributions are those:
- Centos (Redhat Enterprise Linux Free)
- Debian

As Centos is RHEL, everything is working fine, it does not have the 
latest technology as other distributions but it is really stable. And 
updating works!
Debian is really fine for servers (Without GUI or anything useless for a 
server).

There is also OpenSolaris that is becoming great. But it is not mature 
for desktop usage. (But ZFS is really cool).

Peter Alcibiades a écrit :
> All this is a reason for going with Debian proper rather than Ubuntu.  You
> get continuous upgrades.  Whereas Ubuntu, you have Debian in the background,
> but you have to do clean re-installs every time you do a major upgrade.  So
> with Ubuntu, you have all the disadvantages of Debian and none of the
> advantages. 
>
> If going with a release type upgrade, there is a lot to be said for Mandriva
> or PCLinux.  2008.1 was a pretty good release of Mandriva, and you can
> choose from KDE 3 or Gnome in the One versions.  2009 is KDE 4.1, so its
> probably worth waiting a while for a KDE 4.2 release, as lots of stuff is
> still incompatible and there is still a bit of work to be done on usability.
> Mandriva updates, you can just clean install without formatting /home, and
> its pretty reliable.
>
> If going with a Debian derivative there is a lot to be said for Mepis, which
> does do continuous upgrades. I would go with Debian Etch by the way, if
> going to Debian - there is no percentage in even going with Lenny until it
> becomes Stable.
>
> On older machines, there's a lot to be said for Zenwalk.  Xfce & Slackware
> based.  Or Debian with Fluxbox.
>
> The blackout might be a misconfigured xorg issue.  I've met this with
> installing Lenny.  Problem is that dpkg-reconfigure does not seem to give
> you proper access to the xorg parameters in their currently packaged version
> of xorg, so this means editing xorg.conf by hand, which is no fun - and I
> could not make even this work last time.
>
> On /home and partitions, yes, /home should always be a separate partition. 
> If you have configuration problems, dpkg-reconfigure.  I can't see any
> reason to have /usr/bin on a separate partition.  It used to be recommended
> to put /usr on a separate partition, but I always thought it more trouble
> than its worth.  Still less reason to put Grub on one.  What does this get
> you?
>   




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