> i did run into ubuntu which seems to be a branch of debian with what > looked like a liveCD iso but i dont know if anyone uses it. Ubuntu has ranked in the #1 or #2 spot on distrowatch for the past couple years. It is funded by a former Debian developer, Mark Shuttleworth, who previously started a company that he sold to VeriSign earning him 500+ million dollars. So, now he has plenty of time and money to devote to his linux 'hobby'. I believe Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) is around 50-100 employees now (mostly engineers). http://distrowatch.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Ltd. > it has a package system called symantic or something that ive never > heard of (not that that should stop me i guess...) but i need to be > able to easily install software like svn etc. Ubuntu is based on Debian and so it uses the debian based package system. The command-line interface is apt. There are also a number of graphical frontends to apt including synaptic. _______________________________________________ ____ _ _ ___ _ _ ____ ___ ___ |___ \/ |__] \_/ |___ / |__] |___ _/\_ | | |___ /__ | Expyezp mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slow.tk/listinfo.cgi/expyezp-slow.tk
