From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2007-06-11T21:41:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Serious danger of being impressed

On 10 Jun 2007, at 19:48, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:20:12AM +0900, Mark Carter wrote:
>> I'm also in two minds as to whether I should try to switch over  
>> from OS
>> X permanently. I'm new to iMacs, and I have to say that OS X has a  
>> nice
>> polish to it; but then Ubuntu, gotta love those repositories.
>
> If you like Ubuntu's repositories, you should check out Debian's --  
> much
> more extensive, and generally conducive to a more stable system, too.
>
> Similar in extensiveness is FreeBSD's ports collection -- and even  
> *more*
> conducive to stability than Debian's repositories.  That's hard to  
> beat.
>
> Both Debian and FreeBSD tend to work best for people who are  
> willing and
> able to make their own decisions, however, more than people who want
> something "easy".  Ubuntu is far more suited to the average MS Windows
> transplant, I suppose.

I must admit that since swapping to FreeBSD last year I find using  
most Linux distros unnecessarily cumbersome and increasingly user  
friendly in the same way as Windows. But OS X is also a damn pleasant  
platform to use and I probably do more of my Ruby development work on  
it than I do on FreeBSD - TextMate alone makes it hugely productive!
Ubuntu would be the platform that I'd recommend to a Windows user  
looking to get into Linux as a user, and Gentoo if they really want  
to deep geek how a Linux system hangs together :)


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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