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I no longer use Ubuntu, but it was my first distro and taught me a lot. It has the following advantages, in my opinion:
1. As the most popular distro it has a ton of online documentation, tutorials, and how-to's.
2. A very friendly community at http://ubuntuforums.org
3. Lots of software to choose from.
I no longer use Ubuntu, but it was my first distro and taught me a lot. It has the following advantages, in my opinion:
1. As the most popular distro it has a ton of online documentation, tutorials, and how-to's.
2. A very friendly community at http://ubuntuforums.org
3. Lots of software to choose from.
Ubuntu is popular because it is popular because it is marketed.
It was my first distro; now I use Slackware which suits me a lot better.
why do u say so?
what good is slackware?
I have ubuntu DVD, it is supposed to contain many languages packages,
but during installation, it does not prompt you for customisation,
as for opensuse, Fedora, mandriva etc, you can choose particular packages u want to install,
but ubuntu DVD does not work like this????
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Slackware gives you a lot more freedom as to how you install your operating system and configure your computer.
Slackware's package manager (pkgtool) does not manage dependencies. This gives you the freedom to install whatever you want, without a "smart" package manager getting in the way.
Slackware is also much faster, and uses fewer computer resources, than Ubuntu in my experience. Ubuntu is one of the slowest and resource hungry distros from my experience.
Slackware gives you a lot more freedom as to how you install your operating system and configure your computer.
Slackware's package manager (pkgtool) does not manage dependencies. This gives you the freedom to install whatever you want, without a "smart" package manager getting in the way.
Slackware is also much faster, and uses fewer computer resources, than Ubuntu in my experience. Ubuntu is one of the slowest and resource hungry distros from my experience.
I install slackware before, but it just look like Kubuntu, I mean the interface, it is KDE.
However, I did not go deep into it, I just want an OS can do documents, surf internet, simple programming.
I install slackware before, but it just look like Kubuntu, I mean the interface, it is KDE.
Slackware includes XFCE, Fluxbox, plus several other window managers. There is also gnome-slackbuilds: http://gnomeslackbuild.org/ if you want gnome. The LXDE desktop is also available from slackbuilds.org.
This is why Slackware gives you the most freedom to do what you want.
Slackware gives you a plain generic kernel, a plain generic KDE, a plain generic XFCE, and plain generic packages, etc.
Ubuntu gives you their versions of the same packages, whether you want them or not.
I moved form fedora 12 to ubuntu 10.04 a month or so ago. Main reason, ubuntu LSE has 3yrs support against fedora's 1 year. I'm getting too old to change OSs every year.
But it seems to me that ubuntu is a bit faster.
In fedora wine works better, and it was easier setting up my lan.
I'm still trying to resolve my ubuntu lan problem after more than a week of trying.
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