On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:50:18 +0000
Alan Pope <alan@???> wrote:
> * Consistent platform across whole environment
> Which leads to
> * Single cache of repository rather than one for ubuntu, one for
> debian
Only an issue if you are using apt-cache (?) and distribute the
updates locally
> * More up to date kernel and packages
more up to date than Sid ?????
but I accept it will be more up to date than sarge or possibly etch
when it is released.
> * Shorter time between releases
> * Will be same as I deploy to customers, so makes supporting them
> easier.
this could be a disadvantage for some customers - some like the
stability of Debian
P.S.
I still don't like ubunto which I now have set up on a spare hard
disk so my wife can have a play as part of my long term plan to
wean her off windows.
I think she quite likes the look of evolution, it isn't too
dissimilar to eudora and has a few more bells and whistles.
OOo writer is enough like word she'll have no problems using it.
Viewing pics won't be much of a problem either.
It will take her a while to get out of the habit of letting the OS do
it all - she tends, like many win users I guess, to allow all
her files be saved in 'My Documents'.
The big stumbling block is still the genealogy application - she has
been using Family Tree Maker since the early 1990s and whilst gramps
is pretty good it would take a while to get used to the changes.
I think the solution is to convince her to use geneweb locally as
well as remotely, but old habits die hard.
--
John Lewis
Debian Linux with Geneweb genealogy application
