[plug] Ubuntu on older 8.04 on older machines

[Kev]

Blake Munro wrote:
> I might be a little biased, but I use Red hat servers at work and 
> Debian based systems after hours, and I find the debian based package 
> managers faaaaaaar easier to use.
> Infact I hate yum, yast, any other package manager - i'm a pure 
> apt-get boy.
>
> I find that on redhat systems there are much less packages available 
> in total, therefore to the newbie linux user I would always suggest a 
> debian based system (ubuntu, knoppix, mint etc)

When I very first dabbled in Linux, only a couple of years ago, I was 
pointed at Mandrake.  I had all sorts of bother installing new apps, 
mainly due to "dependency hell" - Linux's version of the famous "dll 
hell" in Windoze.  When someone explained how the Debian system dealt 
better with dependencies than the Red Hat system I gave a Deb based 
distro a go.  The rest, as they say, is history.  I'm still unwilling to 
even entertain the idea of Red Hat based system.  As for package 
managers, Synaptic will handle either types of packages.

Newbies should be pointed at Debian based distros for 1 good reason;  
installing new apps is a perenial problem for newbies, but less so with 
debs.

Cheers
Kev

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