On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 01:17:40PM +0000, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On 5/17/09, Jacob Todd <jaketodd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:55:27PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
> > > As to Ubuntu, you can say what you like, but at least for me the
> > > maintenance time reduced dramatically after going from Debian to
> > > Ubuntu on the 5-6 machines I maintain. And that is something I
> > > appreciate, not how small space I can get a distribution to use...
> > >
> >
> > The time it takes you to go from one version Ubuntu to another takes less
> > time
> > than upgrading a Debian machine? I don't think so.
> >
>
> Saying Ubuntu is faster than Debian or vice versa is like saying a
> green wagon is faster than a blue wagon. They're the same thing, and
> most of my admin time is spent undoing the stupid changes to upstream
> code.
> --
> # Kurt H Maier
>
What I meant to imply was that you usually can't (or couldn't last time I check
ed) go from one release of Ubuntu to the next, with out reinstalling the whole
thing, unlike Debian, where you can do that.
