[Ubuntu-SG] Hello Everyone

[Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint]

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 23:08, jelly fish wrote:
> I have tired Red Hat 9, Fedora Core, Turbo Linux, Xandros, BackTrack &
> FreeBSD Out of this, Red Hat & Fedora I had used it for LAMP.

Wow ... thats a lot of systems ... opensolaris ? :P

>
> Linux has improved alot this few yrs, dependencies hell isn't so scary
> anymore.

It hasn't been since I moved to Ubuntu ... three cheers for apt-get!! 

>
> Initially I was deciding whether to use Gentoo, Ubuntu or openSUSE, but I
> heard/read alot of things about Ubuntu so i decided to put it in.

OpenSUSE does have something Ubuntu doesn't ... yast + apparmor. If you havn't 
seen them , pls check them out. 

>
> For now I personally feel that Ubuntu users seem to be more friendly? and
> there like more resources available?

There are a few reasons really ... Ubuntu has best of both worlds ... bleeding 
edge distro like fedora with stability of a debian-based distro and of course 
the fact that Canonical ship free CDs worldwide helps alot :P I personally do 
know a gentoo developer , whose name is in official gentoo developers page on 
gentoo.org ,  who moved to Ubuntu. whee!!!

regards
billy 

>
> "Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint" <billy at ubuntu.sg> wrote: On Tuesday 06
> February 2007 12:19, Kerwin Khu wrote:
>
> Oh haaaa ... me not that expert really ... just that I used Linux for about
> 9 years now so I just made more mistakes than for someone who just started.
> So jellyfish , can tell us which distros have you used before trying out
> Ubuntu ?? And what differences do you see ? Btw , tried FreeBSD yet ?
>
> regards
> billy
>
> PS : Welcome to our normally very quiet mailing list dude :P
>
> > On 2/6/07, jelly fish  wrote:
> > > Hi, everyone from SG.
> > > I finally installed Ubuntu on my laptop now.
> > > As for my linux experience, had used a few distro before but in terms
> > > of technical knowledge it's still not good enough.
> > >
> > > So starting with Ubuntu I hope to learn as much as I can
> >
> > That's great!
> >
> > Billy is the resident expert on the list, but I'm sure everyone here
> > will be willing to help out with suggestions and advice.
> >
> > When I switched from M$ to using Ubuntu/Kubuntu full-time at home, I
> > found the Ubuntu Guide and Ubuntu Forums in particular to be great
> > resources
> >
> > http://www.ubuntuguide.org/
> > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/
> >
> > Hope you'll find no need to boot into M$ in the near future ;)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kerwin

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