On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:39:30AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > what are the advantages of this distro over other more established ones?
given that it is based on debian, then a release cycle of 6 months is actually an interresting advantage, other than that, it can't be worse than debian testing. (probably better) http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/relationship/document_view As a volunteer organization, Debian has historically been less good at making time-based or predictable releases, and has a difficult time providing accountability. Stable releases of Debian have been few and far between in recent years and the more raw unreleased versions of Debian do not provide security fixes. [ ... ] The Ubuntu team hopes to address some of those issues and bring more people onto the Debian system. now if they can deliver on that promise that would be great. greetings, martin. -- looking for a job doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
