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Datamation examines the Debian and Ubuntu distros in detail by starting with the question, what is the difference between Debian and Ubuntu? Neither GNU/Linux distro has been out of Distrowatch's top six since 2005, and for the last four years neither has been out of the top three. There are good reasons for that. Though if systemd is not your cup of tea, there is also a Debian fork, Devuan, which is basically Debian GNU/Linux minus systemd.
[Ed Note: For many in the community who are Linux experts, this article may have no appeal. For those of us that are new to it and trying to learn, something this basic is a nice read and contains good information.]
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Debian vs. Ubuntu: What's the Difference?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by pTamok on Sunday July 16 2017, @06:48PM (3 children)
I would like to be a happy Devuan user, but it doesn't quite meet my wishes, which is a shame. That said, neither does Debian. In both cases, the standard installers don't have the capability of building the environment I want. I might be forced into doing some heavy hacking.
However, what I will say is that I support the Devuan philosophy of choice of init system - that is "Init Freedom"
( from https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom/ [devuan.org] )
While I'm trying to make the move from Kubuntu, I'm also trying to work out what is easiest to use as a supportable system for my relatives, and am currently leaning towards Lubuntu, for practical reasons. While I'm not thrilled at having to uses proprietary blobs to support their hardware and Pulseaudio (because of Firefox), the advantages of having a relatively sane mainstream system are clear. Skype was a deal-breaker: if Skype for Linux did not exist, none would move off Windows. I managed to move them from Windows Live Mail to Thunderbird, and from IE/Edge to Firefox, but Skype...
I've been reading an interesting blog of someone trying to use a Fedora Linux system for work, instead of iOS. In a business context, the calendar issues he has are indeed a problem. ( http://blog.scottlowe.org//2017/07/10/linux-migration-july-2017-progress-report/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slowe%2Fcontent%2Ffeed+%28blog.scottlowe.org+Content+Feed%29 [scottlowe.org] ) I think it illustrates that Linux is not ready to take over the generic corporate desktop. Yet. Which is a shame, but unsurprising.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @09:50PM
> However, what I will say is that I support the Devuan philosophy of choice of init system - that is "Init Freedom"
Well, except that Devuan does not offer "init freedom" at all: you get to choose between sysvinit and sysvinit.
In Debian proper at least two different choices are supported.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @11:57PM (1 child)
60 percent of that URL is noise.
Next time, chop it off before the question mark and see if it still works.
(It almost always will.)
Better still: Also use proper link text.
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(Score: 1) by pTamok on Friday July 28 2017, @09:06PM
Sorry.
I usually do prune URLs in the way you mention*: I simply forgot this time. Mea culpa.
*Usually to remove all the tracking guff.