On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:50:54 +0000 Ian bell ianbell@ukfsn.org wrote:
BenEBoy wrote:
John Seago wrote:
For those unable to take up the offer of free Ubuntu CD's at next Sunday's, (28th) meeting, today I was given a two disk set at Ottakar's in Norwich, presumably they are available at all
branches. > From the Computer books dept. one to a customer.
Really? Anyone know why they're giving away distros?
I've been having a look at Ubuntu tonight. From what I can tell, it's debian with more up to date packages. Is that a fair assessment?
beb
Except kde is not included.
In that case I may just give it a go ;-)
I assume it goes straight in with Gnome in that case. Does anyone know if it is easy to choose another - I'd rather not put all the Gnome stuff on and then take it off again (may just as well stick with Debian unstable in that case). Although my main reason for trying it is to identify a recommended desktop distro for customers - my recent experience with Red Hat Enterprise Workstation leads me to consider Red Hat have pulled out of the Linux market altogether (unless you are at corporate level that is) - there is too much work to do on it to get a usable small business workstation, which makes a raw Debian install and easier proposition imho :-) Perhaps this is why people don't consider Linux ready for the desktop?
Hypothesis:
Red Hat = Linux
Red Hat is not ready for the desktop
therefore Linux is not ready for the desktop
since the first of those is clearly incorrect (although often taken as true) the whole hypothesis falls apart ;-)
/me dons flame retardant suite :-o
(disclaimer - please don't take this too seriously. I personally don't like Red Hat or KDE, but this is for my usage and I don't assume that the same can be said for everyone!)