Telco switches to Ubuntu from RHEL for one reason...

[Cam Cope]

Heh, I currently dual boot Ubuntu/Gentoo. I use Ubuntu when I need things to
just work (I occasionally break stuff in Gentoo, since I run the ~x86
branch). I like Gentoo more than any other distro because of the control you
have over it, it's speed, and it's bleeding edge packages. The only thing
that I dislike about Ubuntu (and this is probably true of most distros) is
that if a new version of a package reaches stable, it isn't put in the
repositories. Take Pidgin for instance. Feisty still uses GAIM, which while
nice, lacks many of the long awaited features finally fixed/implemented in
Pidgin (AIM File Transfers, for instance). Either new repositories must be
added to get these packages, they must be downloaded from a website like
getdeb.net, or they must be manually compiled from source. Much more
complicated than emerge pidgin ;-) Still, for the average user, I always
recommend Ubuntu. I've converted at least 10 people, from business users to
my grandfather (who had never used a computer in his life before I gave him
an Ubuntu laptop). Well, this reply turned into kind of a tangent, but oh
well.

--Cam.


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> From: "Kristian Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Telco switches to Ubuntu from RHEL for one reason...
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> An interesting observation that many Ubuntu users share?  I know this
> is why I switched to Ubuntu from my previous installations of Red Hat
> / Fedora / Mandrake / SuSE / Gentoo and numerous others.  By far,
> Gentoo was the best distro I ever used hands down in terms of control
> given to the end-user and easy of software installations (if it didn't
> break on build)...
>
> "[The telco] said the reasons for moving from the pay-for Red Hat to
> the zero-cost Ubuntu was not so much about the price, as Locatrix
> still runs a bit of Red Hat for front-end workloads, but was more
> about Ubuntu's ability to install new software seamlessly."
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> http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9756116-16.html?part=rss&subj=TheOpenRoad
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:48:16 -0400
> From: "Martin Owens" <doctormo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Telco switches to Ubuntu from RHEL for one reason...
> To: "Kristian Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com>
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> I moved from Gentoo to Ubuntu last year, mainly because all I wanted
> was to use my TV Card at the time and compiling every last package was
> getting me down; Fedora/RH, SuSE, Madriva and a couple of other
> distributions I tried at the time were slow, and bogged down with lots
> of needless processes, not clean and there was no polish on the
> desktop versions so any tools or configuration panels were almost
> incidental rather than purposeful.
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> On 08/08/07, Kristian Hermansen <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > An interesting observation that many Ubuntu users share?  I know this
> > is why I switched to Ubuntu from my previous installations of Red Hat
> > / Fedora / Mandrake / SuSE / Gentoo and numerous others.  By far,
> > Gentoo was the best distro I ever used hands down in terms of control
> > given to the end-user and easy of software installations (if it didn't
> > break on build)...
> >
> > "[The telco] said the reasons for moving from the pay-for Red Hat to
> > the zero-cost Ubuntu was not so much about the price, as Locatrix
> > still runs a bit of Red Hat for front-end workloads, but was more
> > about Ubuntu's ability to install new software seamlessly."
> >
> >
> http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9756116-16.html?part=rss&subj=TheOpenRoad
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