[sf-lug] Ubuntu vs. Mandriva

[Ernest De Leon]

In that case...probably not.  :)

2008/4/26 Paul Ward <dssstrkl at gmail.com>:

> I'm not all that concerned with the ease of use issue, since I'm planning
> to build a headless server to act as a mailserver, firewall, NAS and maybe a
> MythTV backend. I'll use the macs to ssh into it, so I'm not really thinking
> about the desktop manager (I like KDE, but might give gnome a try), and it
> would probably be fun to set up vnc and do a full remote desktop. I'm aware
> that any distro can do what I want, I guess I just wanted to know if there
> were any real differences between a current champ and an old friend.
>
> Paul WardSent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 26, 2008, at 7:42 PM, "Ernest De Leon" <edeleonjr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If ease of use and the 'it just works' (often attributed to Mac OS)
> philosophy appeals to you, I would recommend Ubuntu.  I have not use
> Mandriva proper...I tried out Mandrake a long time ago and didn't like it
> much, but Linux in general was not so refined (at the desktop level.)
> Needless to say Linux has come a long way since then, particularly for
> desktop use, and I think most desktop leaning distributions like Ubuntu,
> Suse, Fedora, etc, are all pretty even in functionality and polish.  I
> prefer Ubuntu, but I will also say that Fedora and Suse are excellent
> distros.  I was rather impressed with PCBSD as a matter of fact (I saw it in
> action at LUGRADIO2008) and I even downloaded it and have been playing with
> it intermittently.  OpenSolaris still has a way to go, but it seemed to work
> fine on a desktop PC I was tinkering with at work.  The other reason I love
> Ubuntu so much is because of the large effort they have taken towards
> education (like Edubuntu.)  Education (and I mean true education not the
> business it has morphed into today) is the most important thing in the world
> to me, and I believe it will ultimately result in the righting of so much
> that is wrong in the world today.  Any company that takes such an active
> role in educating children (or anyone for that matter) and does it in a way
> that promotes freedom in every form is at the top of my list.
>
> E
>
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Paul Ward < <dssstrkl at gmail.com>
> dssstrkl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've used one flavor of Linux or another since 1998, when I got
> > introduced to Mandrake 2 or 3. Since it was light years better than my
> > mac, I ditched it for a Linux box that later dual-booted win2k. I used
> > that combo until 2002 when I got a PowerBook and have been using Macs
> > full time since then. The old Linux box ran ubuntu until it died a
> > couple of years ago. Since then, I've played with various distros in
> > VMs, but I want to build a new machine, to use as a file/media server.
> > I'm familiar with Unix CLI stuff, rolled my own Apache server, but
> > have been out of the Linux game for a while.
> >
> > Paul Ward
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Apr 26, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Rick Moen < <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> > rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Quoting Paul Ward ( <dssstrkl at gmail.com>dssstrkl at gmail.com):
> > >
> > >> I'm sure this comes up every once in a while, and I'm definately not
> > >> trying to start a distro war, but are there any significant
> > >> differences between the current (k)ubuntu and Mandriva releases?
> > >
> > > Yes.  There are some quite significant underlying differences.
> > >
> > > If you don't mind the question, how much background do you already
> > > have
> > > on that subject, and on Linux generally?
> > >
> > >
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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety." - A common 18th Century sentiment
voiced by Benjamin Franklin

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his
government." - Edward Abbey

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." -
Edmund Burke, English statesman and political philosopher (1729-1797)
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