[plug] Ubuntu on older 8.04 on older machines

[Richard Meyer]

On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 19:50 +0800, Kev wrote:
> 
> 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.

NO, they are a lesser problem with SYNAPTIC (not because the underlying
packages are *.debs) or whatever the FRONTEND is. I have run SUSE
systems with Smart and it was as easy as synaptic (the author claims
easier ... but ... ).
> 
> Cheers
> Kev
> 
-- 
Richard Meyer
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 
William Pitt, 1783

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