[wellylug] Meetings for 2009

[Daniel Pittman]

Lindsay Hunter <lindsay at csw.co.nz> writes:
> Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 06:10 +1300, Lindsay Hunter wrote:
>>
>>> I am happy to help though I would have to admit that I have never
>>> done a Debian install.  Perhaps we can recruit someone who has, and
>>> conduct the operation here?
>>
>> Can Do.  But It should be Lenny as that is has been released now as
>> the new stable version 5.0.0
>
> Given what you want to do, I would suggest Ubuntu or one of its
> siblings.  Easy to install, well behaved in terms of Skype and
> cameras, and easily obtainable?

Well, so-so in terms of Skype and so on: their PulseAudio integration is
reported to leave a lot to be desired, and the most common complaint is
that Skype and friends are left in the cold.

This might improve with the next release but has certainly been a
consistent complaint everything since 8.04, I fear.

> And built on Debian so shares much of the claimed stability?

So-so, in my experience.  Updates between versions are not that painful,
like Debian, and updates within a release are generally pretty solid.

Moving between releases was a bit of a game of Russian roulette, though,
in a "which features that I use have they dropped or broken this time?"
sort of way.

*shrug*  Personally, I went back to Debian/testing for workstations and
found that a mostly positive experience — it showed how much work Ubuntu
had put into "just works" features out of the box, but it hasn't
randomly dropped support for anything I use, so wins there.

Regards,
        Daniel