Bye to Unbuntu

[John R Cichy]

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:53 -0600, Anthony M Simonelli wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 17:17 +0100, Knapp wrote:
> > Are you saying you're going to use OpenSuse instead of Ubuntu?   I
> > couldn't leave the Debian based distros.  If I were ever to leave
> > Ubuntu, it would be for Debian.  I just like running a current desktop
> > and current Gnome, which Ubuntu provides.
> > 
> > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 10:19 -0500, Julian Alarcon wrote:
> > > JEJE, and I chose Ubuntu 3 Months ago upper Opensuse.. JEJEJE..
> > 
> > Saying goodbye to Ubuntu for some other distro is one thing but Suse?
> > Is that not a bit like getting on the titanic after it hits the
> > iceberg? Sure it is a nice ship with a good design but?
> > Douglas
> > 
> There are people who question Shuttleworth and Canonical's motive behind
> Ubuntu and the "corporate involvement" makes people suspicious, but
> openSuse?  I tried out 10.2 and I actually had to agree to a license
> agreement from Novell!  The only times I've had to do that was for
> Lin/Freespire (understandable), Fedora and openSuse.  This doesn't seem
> 'free' to me.  OpenSuse seems like one of those distros that assumes the
> user is clueless and tries to do everything for the user automagically
> and is heavily customized while Ubuntu seems to stay a hacker distro
> while being a convenient Debian.  Am I totally off or does anyone agree?
> 
> 
I started with RH (pre IPO), pulled my hair out for years in RPM hell,
then discovered Debian (my first box was woody), and have been running
pure Debian until about a week ago when I took a look at ubuntu (great
job BTW), for my workstation. I have played with Mandrake also, and have
to agree with you in that the commercial Linux's want to set everything
up for you (read take some of your choices away). ubuntu sets everything
up, but leaves the choices (again, great job!). Of course, I'm addicted
to apt based systems and can't imagine trying another package management
system.

John