On 11/25/2011 02:38 PM, Eric Keller wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Moses McKnight<mo...@texband.net> wrote: > >> >> And of course Debian is what Ubuntu is based on but it tends to be >> more stable. It has not historically had as good hardware and media >> format support out of the box as Ubuntu partly due to a more strict >> adherence to an open-source-only policy. That may have changed a little >> now, but I don't know since I haven't used it much for a while. >> >> Moses >> >> When I got tired of Fedora's desire to only ship broken, untested software > a couple of years ago, I tried Debian. The installer was a nightmare that > reminded me of the old 10 floppy install days.
"... a couple of years ago": perhaps you mean a ( couple * 5 ) years ago? I use quite a few installers - the Debian one is one of the best. Of course if you have brandnew hardware without driver support you can have problems - as is true for all the Linux distros.. There are Debian firmware packages (they supply the binary heaps in /lib/firmware) in case you are using some proprietary firmware. Just isn't a problem these days and particularly so for the things in EMC2. Having a rock solid system is important for folks running EMC2 - There are many cases where bleeding edge support means a less stable system - not something I want on a machine tool. A lot bugs get fixed in Debian first. The fixes pass through experimental - unstable, testing then stable and it is possible to pull code in from unstable to a stable system if need be ( Ubuntu is mostly a mix of testing/unstable Debian packages anyway). (There is also way to pull in Debian packages to Ubuntu). The one thing that Ubuntu offers is paid support - but the comments I've heard from people that have used it say it is better to just search mailing lists.. There are many that are now saying that mint (it is also based on Debian) is displacing Ubuntu as the best desktop ( there is now a branch of mint that goes straight back to Debian to avoid some bugs) - , but I would say the differences are really small - most distros are running pretty much the same code - the important issue for controlling a machine is stability - and Debian is the stability king with the older, time-tested, and debugged code - a good thing for machine control. The other difference between distros is if bugs actually get back to the developers -- explained in detail here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3385088017824733336# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Schmidt EMail k...@xtronics.com Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 Postmodernism: nihilism in drag. -kps -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
