On Monday 06 March 2006 20:38, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: > I tried to run Debian before I ran Ubuntu, but the deb packages that I > wanted to use seemed horribly out of date. For example, I read that the > Samba version they use has all sorts or problems. What's the point of > apt-get if you have to often manually do most of it? I supposed I'd just > rather do it all manually at that point in case something breaks and I have > to fix it.
This is another reason why I would go with ubuntu before debian. Debian does tend to have ancient "stable" packages. It is possible to get the latest stuff if you understand the concepts of changing your sources.lst and pinning. But Ubunut seems to have a much more active and up to date community behind it. -joel > > >From what I've read, the Ubuntu repositories are pretty stable. I had > > heard > > rumors that the Gentoo ebuilds were little time bombs, but Ive never had > any problems with any of them conflicting with other ebuilds. > > Rog > > On 3/6/06, Joel Brauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry Roger, > > > > I haven't tried it, but I do know that they actually have some > > certifications > > by 3rd party vendors. IBM DB2 is certified on Ubuntu server. So it > > can't be > > too bad. > > > > I would personally go with Ubuntu before debian because I am not a debian > > geek > > and don't know the proper channels for support and questions like I do > > with > > ubuntu. > > > > -joel > > > > On Friday 03 March 2006 12:22, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: > > > What do you guys think of using Ubuntu as a server? I'm really > > > > impressed > > > > > with how easy it was to install on a laptop, but am wondering if the > > > stability of Debian's Sarge might be better. > > > > -- > > Joel Brauer > > Manager IS > > Web Application Development > > Loma Linda University > > [email protected] > > work: 909-558-7713 > > pager: [email protected] > > cell: 909-534-1934 -- Joel Brauer Manager IS Web Application Development Loma Linda University [email protected] work: 909-558-7713 pager: [email protected] cell: 909-534-1934
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