Debian or Ubuntu?

[kramerjm at gmail.com (James Kramer)]

Yesterday, I installed a small  Debian 3.1 image on a virtual server
and then upgraded to 4.0 by performing
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
However, that was a minimal server image and didn't contain
xserver-common and other desktop stuff.
jay

On 4/22/07, Kristian Hermansen <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/21/07, Samuel Baldwin <shardz4217 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This probably isn't what you want to hear, but my desktop has been
> > running gentoo for a year now, and it's been great. Much more flexible
> > than either debian or ubuntu.
>
> Yes, Gentoo is great.  I used it for many years.  But, how long does
> it take you to compile Gnome/KDE? :-)
>
> > Of the two though (Debian & Ubuntu), I would definately pick Debian.
> > Stuff in debian makes sense. Ubuntu drove me up the wall. It's not hard
> > to setup Debian as a desktop (or Gentoo for that matter), and you get
> > to choose what's happening, rather than on Ubuntu.
>
> Can you be more specific?  Ubuntu is great for the desktop and chooses
> the options that would most suit the end user.  However, Ubuntu is
> still based on Debian and I don't see where your bias for Debian fits
> in and on what level...
>
> And for Flash on AMD64, you need to use nspluginwrapper:
> http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/
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