-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joe Shuttleworth wrote: > Thanks to those who gave me advice on distros. I think I might try a > few. I want something for a desktop. One that I want to try is either > Debian or Ubuntu, but I would like to hear more about what the differences are > between these. > Not a lot. Each Ubuntu release is based off of a Debian unstable snapshot.
> Do they have support for Nvidia? > They both do, though the process was a little more manual for Debian. Of course even with Ubuntu, I still go and get the most recent drivers directly from nVidia. > Is Ubuntu stable? > In my opinion it is stable. The most stable release is usually the LTS version, which is what I put on servers, even in my own house. > I know Ubuntu is based on Debian, but are there some important differences? The main difference is that Ubuntu goes further to cater to less sophisticated users. What this means is that some things are a little more work than with Debian. Also due to the Debian political structure and the resulting policies, their packages tend to be older (of course this really depends on what we mean by Debian, they have several releases, though I can only recommend stable unless you know what you are doing). Basically, if this is just for a desktop or laptop machine, I would go with Ubuntu. Of course Fedora is probably an OK choice, I just prefer the Debian style system. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpl5TwACgkQwRXgH3rKGfMo3wCfddYKY4TWaSitspNY80Lkwb8p NN0An0A5GJ4AhYJmzbT74P4krgteV2IO =wPP+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
