A new Linux recommendation

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:01:43PM -0400, Ben Jackson wrote:
> Thirded. Ubuntu is now my recommendation for people that approach me with
> the whole "I want to learn this Linux thing" and it's easily upgradable to
> something that power users can use too.

I had been using Gentoo on my notebook, I switched to Ubuntu and it
operates my hardware better than did Gentoo.  It updates faster (don't
wait to compile everything every other minute), plus it *runs* faster.
Sure, maybe my binaries were more optimized for my CPU, but the whole
configuration seems more optimized with Ubuntu.

The sound effects on start up and login annoy my wife, and the brown
desktop seems to annoy various commentators on the internet, but it is
pretty good.

Being Debian at its root it is familiar to those folks.


Disclaimer: I am not running a server, I would want to understand more
what is going on before I did that.  (How does one do security updates
without doing major updates that could break things that are working?)
I also have not done a major update.


-kb