[plug] Ubuntu on older 8.04 on older machines

[William Kenworthy]

Very well put!

BillK

On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 22:06 +0800, Martin Langsjoen wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 19:07 +0800, Kai wrote:
> > That and the old PIII 600 desktop form factor machine I have sitting 
> > here with Fedora 4 on it, wanna wipe that and install with Ubuntu since 
> > I find Debian's package management to be so much easier than Fedora/Red 
> > Hat RPM's
> 
> Debian's package management is easier in some ways than what Fedora and
> Red Hat traditionally have had. But this is not so much a technical
> issue.
> 
> The main difference between Debian and most other Linux distributions
> (and operating systems) is Debians strict packaging policies and QA
> process. Anyone with enough resources can build a rpm based distro with
> the same amount of packages and the same quality. Fedora is slowly going
> in that direction, but it is a distro with different goals.
> 
> What makes Debian special? Here are some examples:
>  - http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
>  - http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/index.en.html
>  - http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html
> 
> The documents, the willingness to focus on the policies and to stall
> their releases (for somethings that seems to be for ever) over details.
> The policies makes Debian better in many ways, but it is also the reason
> why many have moved away from the distro.
> 
> yum is now a first class citizen of the Red Hat and Fedora world and Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux do focus on QA and policies, but they have
> different focus, different policies, and different goals.
> 
> I used apt-get for years to maintain Red Hat Linux, but yum do the same
> thing today.
> 
> .rpm and .deb is two very similar solutions to the same problem. It is
> the history of the policies that make the difference.
> 
> -martin
> 
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