Re: Best distro

["Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@tysdomain.com>]

>Debian still doesn't support SpeakUP,
someone has some research to do:
http://people.debian.org/~shane
As for the rest, ubunu is built off debian, so if ubuntu supports speakup 
but debian doesn't, we've got a problem.
I like debian, because of it's package management, and it's ease of 
use--others like slack and gentu etc, but you've got to compile 
everything--there are some precompiled packages I think, but debian is a 
simple apt-get install in most cases.
Last time I had to install a package on fedora, I had to go find it's 
dependents dependents dependents dependents great ancestors off in some far 
away web page, which required some more dependence dependences be located, 
and so on.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Foreign White Devil" <gaijin@clearwire.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: Best distro


> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 03:34:17PM -0700, DON.RAIKES@ORACLE.COM wrote:
>> I realize I am probably starting a feud, but what are the pros and cons
>
> Fedora and Ubuntu are probably the easiest for getting started
> in Linux.  Debian still doesn't support SpeakUP, and for the foreseeable
> next three years, probably still won't, and the others are more
> difficult to use and learn.  Fedora is Redhat based as far as their
> package manager (the ability to add/remove programs) and is probably the
> more popular, while Ubuntu uses the Debian package manager, which in my
> opinion is the superior product (unless Fedora has improved their older
> practices, and I think they have).  There's probably just a tad more
> support for Fedora, but don't quote me on it.  I'm still sticking with
> Debian, myself, for the bug-tracking system, the package manager, and
> their ideals to never release crap, even if it means releasing nothing
> at all.  download and try the Live-CD's, which allow you to try each
> distro before deciding on the one that suits.  They run in memory and
> don't change your current operating system.  Hang out in the
> irc.freenode.net chatrooms and see which impresses you the most.  You
> can tell alot about a distro by the users running it and what help they
> generally provide.  You'll probably be visiting them alot as you learn
> your way around the system.  I would recommend trying the Fedora and
> Ubuntu Live-CD's, see how well written  and helpful they are as far as
> documentation and ease of setup goes, and pick one or the other of the
> two.  It is going to be an adventure as you learn, and you'll likely go
> back and make many changes to how you want things set up, especially
> where disk partitioning is concerned, and kept data.  I like my home or
> user directories separate, so daya I've collected is still there if I
> need to reinstall from scratch or decide to ditch  everything for
> another distro.  YMMV, but Fedora and Ubuntu will give you the fullest
> of all possible setup options and software selections of the latest and
> greatest stuff.  All the other distros are mainly offshoots of Redhat,
> Debian, BSD, SuSE, and Slackware, each being noted mainly for their
> method of package or software management.  I don't recommend the last
> three, as their package management methods and software selection sucks
> by comparison to the first two.  Redhat/Fedora will probably provide the
> most support, and while Debian/Ubuntu fixes the bugs quicker, Debian
> (not Ubuntu) takes forever to add support for newer software.  HTH,
>
> Michael
>
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