Dominic Bnonn Tennant wrote:
Pff, Dr Bates, take your rabid Slack pimping elsewhere.
Now now... Play nicely :) We don't want any fisty cuffs online :) For most people, Ubuntu is a very friendly distro that comes out of a box, and for the most part, as Bruce and Cairo Kingsbury demonstrated, it's childs play to install. In saying that, there are people who are more comfortable with a different distro. That could be because they are restoring vintage computers, because they have a specialist requirement, or because some people are after a challenge of installing a harder distro, for example, Gentoo. But at the end of the day, Linux is Linux...
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 19:09 +1300, Denise Bates wrote:
Ian McDonald wrote:
On 25/01/07, Denise Bates <dbates(a)iconz.co.nz> wrote:
I'll hang out for Slackbuntu (Slackware stability and ease of use, combined with free copies of CDs being thrown around).
There is this already... but it's much easier to install.
And it's called ......... Ubuntu.
Sorry - couldn't resist.
Easier to install? I must have missed something when I installed and briefly attempted to use Ubuntu. Do you mean that it is _easier_ to install only the packages that I want? Do you mean that it is easier to install onto a 586 with 32mb of RAM? Or perhaps you find it is easier to install it onto a CD-Rom-less machine via the PCMCIA slot?