Re: Which Linux is best on lab top

[Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>]

Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Like others have said, it really boils down to Debian or Ubuntu.

I had a wierd problem with an Ada app with Ubuntu 6.10 (gnat
4.1.15). Fixed it by installing Debian 4 (gnat 4.1.22). I'm writing
this on a Thinkpad R51 running Debian 4. Support for suspend and the
lid switches was there out of the box with Ubuntu and has to be
installed manually in Debian. But the Ada support in Debian makes up
for that :-)

> People installing Ubuntu usually download a new 650-meg ISO image and
> reistall from scratch every 6 months.  Only a few of them know about
> the better alternative, which is...

You can update Ubuntu they same way you do with Debian. I was quite
impressed when I startet a dist-upgrade on Ubuntu on Friday afternoon
and forgot that the machine was scheduled to shut down at 20:00 while
the update was in full progress (lots of packages to download on a
1mBit link). I started the machine on Monday morning and it booted
into Gnome from where I started the updater and it finished the
dist-upgrade flawlessly.

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