Bye Bye Ubuntu, Welcome to my life Debian !
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Ok, this is it. Last Sunday I had enough of Ubuntu for a long long time. I am still thankful to the OS that introduced me to the Unix world. I am so glad I left the Windows thing, that I still wonder how come I did not go to Unix before. It is really suited for the geek in me, hehe. Ubuntu was really good, I liked its simplicity, every thing was there at your hand, so intuitive, it was easy to see that it was really suited for beginners, as well as more advanced users, it was really looking perfect to me. I customized it in so many ways, made so many good mofications. I was a happy man. But then the last release came, the infamous Hardy Heron, the release 8.04..... Considering how 7 is one of my fave numbers I should have stayed in my Gutsy version, 7.10, but I did not... I decided to update, despite having such an awful experience a few months ago when I tried the beta of 8.04. Still, I thought that those errors would have been gone in the last release.... How wrong I was... not only the errors were there... but it screwed my graphical interface, man, that was too much to stand. I decided I had enough of Ubuntu. Besides, why is it using beta software like the Firefox Beta3... I had been reading about Ubuntu's father and inspiration, Debian. A way more stable Linux distribution that had been running from the Linux begining. I was reading and I found some things that I really liked. This was one of them...
I love this logo. I have been watching Naruto lately with Lhot, and the symbol of Konoha, Naruto's village is quite similar to this one. But as Lhot pointed out, the spiral goes in the other direction. I do like it. I even like the name, debian.
If you check the definition of debian in the wikipedia, you will find the following:
Debian (pronounced [ˈdɛbiən]) is a computer operating system composed entirely of software which is both free and open source. Its primary form, Debian GNU/Linux, is a popular and influential Linux distribution.[1] It is a multipurpose OS; it can be used as a desktop, laptop, or server.
Debian is known for strict adherence to the Unix and free software philosophies.
I like it :) and I am so happy that I switched.... it is way faster, consumes less memory, and you can learn way more, since it is not so guided as Ubuntu, it is more suited to more advanced users, so it might be hard as a first contact to the Unix/Linux world. It really gave me headaches these days when configuring it... for instance, in Ubuntu the drivers of my ATI video card or my Intel wifi card were installed by default when installing the OS. Now in debian I had to look for them and install them myself, compiling them against the kernel, really new stuff for me. Same goes for almost every thing I had to do to configure it. But I guess it is even more rewarding.
So this is it. I am now running Debian Lenny with Gnome desktop.
Ah, one funny details about debian is the name of the different releases come from the Toy Story movie of Disney.
The code names of Debian releases are names of
characters from the film Toy Story. The unstable,
development distribution is nicknamed sid, after the emotionally unstable
next-door neighbour boy who regularly destroyed toys. (from Wikipedia)
Posted by Manuel Galisteo 1:14 AM
Labels: debian
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May 2, 2008 at 1:45 PM
My geeky hubby :)
