Ubuntu Popularity

[James Diehl]

It just seems a little discriminatory when you go sites like Sun, Oracle and such, and the only systems they support for their programs are SUSE, RedHat, Fedora & Solaris.  They probably are all great programs, but they have probably paid big money to get exclusivity.  Oracle is willing to work with me on my problems, so is Sun, but look through their support lists.  What do ya see?  Everything is formatted for the big four!

Michael Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote: On 30/12/05, James Diehl <jms_diehl at sbcglobal.net> wrote: It makes me wonder Michael!  I don't fully understand the Debian concepts, but just because it's different, it doesn't mean that it's no good!  There are several sites dedicated to Debian, and a whole lot of developers stake their reputation on it, because it's different.  They can't all be wrong!  It sure causes some kind of discrimination though! 



I didn't use Debian because when I first came across it -- a few years ago -- it sucked.  I mean bowling balls through garden hoses levels of suction.  It was everything I hated in Linux (and UNIX in general) wrapped up in a ball.  Note that I also hated Slackware, et al, so it's not a case of anti-Debian bigotry but rather a case of anti-UNIX-attitude bigotry.  ;-) 

As I said on another thread: Ubuntu is the first Linux that didn't get taken off my hard drive after a week (tops).  I've used a few LiveCDs (Knoppix, etc.) for booting up in Chinese net bars so I could have an English UI, but for actual use on a home system?  Linux wasn't in the cards.  Until I hit Ubuntu. 

Maybe Debian is now a suitable candidate for my purposes.  But why bother?  I'm happy(ish) with Ubuntu.
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