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Kristian Hermansen wrote: > Tons of software choices, which makes things easier. Not as many packages > as Gentoo, obviously, but I believe makes the most binary packages > available than any other Linux distribution. Someone correct me if I am > wrong here, but I seem to remember comparing using (dpkg -l / rpm -qa) | wc > -l... That set of commands would simply count the number of software packages /installed locally/, not the total number available. You'd want to count packages found by dselect/apt-get against yum. And then you'd have to take into account weather you're comparing the as-shipped configuration vs. allowing one to twiddle with apt-sources / yum.conf. I don't have a ubuntu box to check, but I highly doubt that your claim above regarding 'most binary packages' is true. Even if it is, I'd be extremely surprised if the difference is significant (or more than a matter of choice of packaging; ie using several small packages instead of one big one for the same software). > And finally, I (and many others) have found Ubuntu to be the best > distro for laptops. Hardware auto-configuration (like CPU frequency > scaling) really makes it easier for the end user. And it all fits on > one disc which also serves as a Live CD to boot (pun intended)! Getting a bit off topic (debian vs. ubuntu), but since you brought rpm-based distros into the discussion, things like frequency scaling and hw auto config are all available (and configured by default) in Fedora as well (and yes, there's a Live CD; maybe not as polished as Ubuntu's though, since it's relatively new). I would imagine that pretty much any modern distro does that stuff. Matt -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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