Comments on: Ubuntu http://jeffmcneill.com/ubuntu/ Publishing, Internet Marketing from Chiang Mai, Thailand Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:16:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: inaethhttp://jeffmcneill.com/ubuntu/#comment-2 inaeth Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:35:18 +0000 http://jeffmcneill.com/2006/08/08/ubuntu/#comment-2 <p>Wow! Someone else knows how to use the Windows Command Line? :)</p> <p>Ubuntu may be getting the press at the moment, but I think Suse will lead the charge into the corporate desktop environment. What would be beneficial to K/Ubuntu, Mepis, and Debian would be to take off with Yast, since Novell has put it under the GPL. Suse was the first Linux distro that I used, and would have still been using it right now if they didn't screw up the 10.1 version of it. So, I switched to Mepis. (I'm a bit of a KDE fan. I don't have anything against Gnome, it's just that KDE was the first environment I was exposed to on Linux, and I know most of the ins and outs of it to get it to do what I want. As long as the command line and Bash are there, though, I don't see why I wouldn't be able to work in Gnome...)</p> <p>Anyway, have to agree with you that apt-get is an awesome utility! I wonder why it took Mark Shuttleworth to create Ubuntu for people to realize what an awesome distribution Debian was?</p> Wow! Someone else knows how to use the Windows Command Line? :)

Ubuntu may be getting the press at the moment, but I think Suse will lead the charge into the corporate desktop environment. What would be beneficial to K/Ubuntu, Mepis, and Debian would be to take off with Yast, since Novell has put it under the GPL. Suse was the first Linux distro that I used, and would have still been using it right now if they didn’t screw up the 10.1 version of it. So, I switched to Mepis. (I’m a bit of a KDE fan. I don’t have anything against Gnome, it’s just that KDE was the first environment I was exposed to on Linux, and I know most of the ins and outs of it to get it to do what I want. As long as the command line and Bash are there, though, I don’t see why I wouldn’t be able to work in Gnome…)

Anyway, have to agree with you that apt-get is an awesome utility! I wonder why it took Mark Shuttleworth to create Ubuntu for people to realize what an awesome distribution Debian was?

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