On 2016-12-15 at 02:02:29 -0800, Heinz Hummel wrote: > I don't know what the reason is but I personally prefer Ubuntu because it > is easier to use, it has a bigger community which is more responsive and > more friendly and one can choose to use a LTS version (and stay with older > software) or a normal version (and get newer software). Debian seems to be > LLLLLLLTS only...
Debian people who need newer software tend to use one of two approachs. One is using testing, which is usually reliable enough to be used in daily work, altought sometimes there are issues and having another working installation to run in an emergency helps. This is what I do with my workstation, except for the first few months after a stable release, when testing tends to be quite in flux (and the software in stable is not that old). The other one is adding backports_ to a stable system and only install those few softwares that are actually needed in a newer version: this is generally much safer as you're sure that the basic OS is not going to break and it's what I'm using on my servers. .. _backports: https://backports.debian.org/ As for the community, in my experience the Debian one may be somewhat smaller, but it's quite technical and thus equally likely to be able to help in case of problems, and it also includes a number of ex or mostly-ex ubuntu people who got back into Debian when they realized that the aims of Canonical weren't really aligned with their interest any longer. -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/20161218093156.oyhwpo7dyfluufch%40manillaroad.local.home.trueelena.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
