Ubuntu on a server, eh? [LWN.net]

Ubuntu on a server, eh?

Posted Jun 1, 2006 20:20 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137)
In reply to: Ubuntu on a server, eh? by cventers
Parent article: Ubuntu Dapper and the distribution business

I decided to give Debian a whirl recently (before Gentoo, I was holding out in the Slackware camp from years ago).

Just curious as to why your switched away from Slackware..

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Ubuntu on a server, eh?

Posted Jun 2, 2006 4:33 UTC (Fri) by cventers (subscriber, #31465) [Link]

As time went by, Slackware served me well... but it was a few years back,
during the time when I was still using Windows on the desktop, and I
didn't keep my server as clean as I should have. I'd want to upgrade
stuff, and I'd end up building it by hand, so I'd end up with a system
half filled with Slackware packages and half filled with stuff I've
hand-compiled.

After I got a new job as a software engineer, I tried Slackware on the
desktop, but after a month or so I gave Gentoo my first try ever (at
home). I loved it so much that I immediately moved my work desktop over,
and when it came time to set up a cluster at work, Gentoo was the
choice...

Switch from Slackware

Posted Jun 9, 2006 16:40 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

I can tell why I did: apt-get install package instead of:-

- find dependencies
- download dependencies
- compile dependencies
- download package
- compile package
- find out how to configure it
- realise one dependency needs a special option
- compile dependencies again
- compile package again
- etc...