Nuke my Gentoo, Fedora for Ubuntu?

[Paul Sladen]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Andreas Geske wrote:

Hello Andreas,

> and Gentoo, ... too much time consuming (compiling)

Enough said.  :-)

> - How fast is Ubuntu compared to SuSE or Fedora.

Only you can decide this.  Everyone has different hardware and everyone
performs different tasks with that hardware.  Obviously people are always
doing their best to make Ubuntu faster---indeed, Keybuk has already taught
the Gentoo people a thing or two about optimising! ;-)

> - I'm one of these "bleeding edge guys". I want to have major version of 
> software (e.g. Firefox 1.0) ASAP, that means 2 weeks after release. 
> Ubuntu is based on Debian, which is not known as a "speed wonder".

Ubuntu is 'snapshot'ed from Debian unstable every 6 months.  After a period
of stablisation and bugfixing, it is released.  Ubuntu aims to provide a
trade-off between having stability and ''having the latest''.

The developers are working with 'Hoary' which will go on to be the
Ubuntu 5.04 release in April;  you're free to run what you want as long as
you understand that stable is supported and other configurations are not...

> - I don't like to search for third party packages throughout the whole 
> web. Does Ubuntu Linux provide a reasonable software repository without 
> having to edit yum.conf

Ubuntu comes with about 1000 supported packages;  most of what you're likely
to want.  If you want to edit 'sources.list' once, you can uncomment the
'universe' archive that contains thousands more (but unsupported) packages.

> - Even Ubuntu Linux is Gnome based distro there are two KDE apps I won't 
> miss: K3B and Krename. Are these apps available?

  sudo apt-get install k3b krename

> - Due to Ubuntu being a Debian based distro, I assume the package format 
> is DEB. Is there a graphical tool for installing software, like 
> synaptic? (or even better)

I believe you've answered your own question!  (Yes, synaptic.)

> - Can I use Ubuntu Linux as a server?
> - Does Ubuntu Linux provide - automatic hardware detection
>       - autmounting CD-ROMs, digicams etc.
>       - graphical configuration of the most important system settings

Yes.  Yes.  Yes!  Yes.

	-Paul
-- 
Is there no safe way to travel?  London, GB