Ubuntu and Kubuntu vs. Mepis
Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO
brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov
Tue Apr 4 09:30:36 CDT 2006
The article that got me thinking about this is here:
http://www.mepis.org/node/9454
They are even raising the SimplyMepis version to 6.0 to match the Ubuntu
release number. This was probably a natural progression from the DCC
Alliance joining. http://www.dccalliance.org/
More below.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Bruno
>Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:17 AM
>
>Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote:
>> Who in our group is actually using these distros? I'm interested in
>> the ease of updating and stability after doing so compared to Mepis,
>> HDD installed Knoppix and regular Debian or any other
>Debian-based distro.
>>
>> I've tried tons of LiveCDs, used Mepis quite a bit and never had
>> success with plain old Debian installing as a desktop. I like Mepis
>> out of the box, though like any distro you find little bits
>that don't
>> work or you don't like. Mepis is switching to the Ubuntu
>repositories with the next release, in order to get more stable
updates.
>>
>being no difference between ubuntu and kubuntu at all except
>the default install. ( you can even have both installed even)
>ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop packages.
>
>I've been using dapper drake since about the mid of Feb.. it is
amazing.
>Love it. Hardware just works, stuff just works, and its sweet.
>I use Kubuntu, but I login to the Ubuntu gnome stuff just to
>see how it is going with development. I've had no stability
>problems at all, even in this beta stage. Plus, with k/ubuntu
>you get a lot of software that is used but "not included" in
>Debian when you enable universe and multiverse repo's as well
>as backports.
What are universe and multiverse repos? Does K/Ubuntu use apt-pinning?
Does this interfere or limit what packages you install to them? I may
have run into a similar problem that Jhutchins had with his Gentoo and
the Wacom crap the other day. I try to remove some package from Mepis
that I will never use. E.g. Gtkpod for ipod support, and a whole crap
load of stuff is going to be removed by apt-get. Makes it hard to gain
space my removing what you don't need. Or do a apt-get update and
upgrade and a whole slew of stuff stops working right.
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