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Originally Posted by MrPLD
I was with Slackware since 1995... but a few years ago I switched over to Ubuntu and quite honestly I'm glad I did. Elitism be damned, sometimes you just want to get your work done and be able to install apps with a click (or in my case, a simple CLI entry  ).
I do have to say, Ubuntu-server really impressed me; I was anticipating a bit of a bloated beast but they actually have made it very nice (running our WWW server now on an Atom box using VirtualBox and yet it still runs slick ).
Paul ( a long-time OpenSource developer ) |
I did an Ubuntu build on a 1st-gen netbook Atom Z520 and the dreaded Poulsbo chipset; in fact said chipset was the reason I used Ubuntu, since they were one of only 2 distros which had drivers for it. Instead of using the Netbook Remix (which is an insult IMO) I got the -minimal install. It was very similar to what I'm used to in Arch; CLI (until I put Enlightenment on it), ncurses installer, just-what-I-need-and-nothing-I-don't. It worked well until a version upgrade broke the chipset support, but I put equal blame for that on both Ubuntu and Intel who shouldn't have released the POS to begin with. Instead of calling it "Alternative Minimal", they could call it "Ubuntu Pro" and get some CLI gurus in their userbase; they could clearly use the help in the forums.