Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Sep 2005 13:45 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Ubuntu never positioned itself as a Debian derivative, like Xandros, Mepis, or Knoppix. Ubuntu publicly acknowledges its relationship with Debian, and Canonical, through its recently founded Ubuntu foundation, hires some Debian developers. All this should be good news; but for some it's not. Whether on Distrowatch or on forums, voices whisper that Ubuntu has a dirty secret you may not want to hear: they don't keep the compatibility with Debian, and they want to fork away from their mother distribution."
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2005-08-28
Uses for Gentoo with Binary Packages:
1.) slow computers. I sorta administer a Gentoo box that has a PII-333MHz in it. There's NO WAY I would want to try to compile OpenOffice.Org with it; the system has to be at least somewhat functional and having massive compiles running for days in the background is bad business.
2.) Getting a system up and running fast. Install X.org, KDE and Mozilla Firefox from packages and get a running system in a few minutes (ok, with the current install system, an hour or so). Then once you have a functional system you CAN run upgrades in the background to get the latest version or a customized version. Yeah, in the end it takes longer before you have the system as you want it, but it's usable faster.