[ubuntu-uk] Non-technical events?

[pmgazz]

Sounds like I ought to revisit Debian installation . . .

On 20/07/10 16:20, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
> 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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