[ubuntu-uk] Non-technical events?

[Paul Morgan-Roach]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> Real Debian is getting pretty good these days - it's smaller and
> faster than Ubuntu and the default Gnome desktop is much the same. It
> was just that getting firmware for my wifi card and so on was a bit of
> a pain. It is vastly easier to get up and running than it used to be -
> ironically, one of the main reasons Ubuntu itself was created. Debian
> is catching up and itself is now a sort of quite viable "Ubuntu
> Light".
>

Indeed - I found this recently and started a thread about it.  The
proprietary driver issue is a bit of a pig, but I have full respect for
where the Debian project is coming from.  I'm running a few Debian servers
around the place now and loving it, and the desktop I have runs like a charm
- as I have suggested previously it seems surprisingly fast from a cold
start compared to my last Ubuntu install.

My first thoughts when installing for the first time in a while was "When
did Debian get a graphical installer??"
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