[ale] Ubuntu for developers?

[Christopher Fowler]

My biggest question has been "Does it have all I need?".  I guess the
reason I ask this is because FC5 came on DVD and Ubuntu came on CD-R.
If I use the development tools and other stuff from FC5 how can Ubuntu
have everything in an installation?  

I've installed Ubuntu on family computers with success for them.  They
still sometimes boot into Windows but for many things they do I've got
them going into Ubuntu.  It is a step in the right direction for them
and I thin Ubuntu has helped me in that regard.  


On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 09:00 -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> I'm very experienced Linux guy.  I've been using it for over 10 years using 
> various distributions.  Gentoo is my preference right now.  At my office, we 
> have a couple of linux-newbies that would like to get off Windows.  I really 
> don't want to recommend Gentoo to them, because at work, they need to focus 
> more on getting work done, and Gentoo does have some higher maintenance. I 
> know that I'm going to be their first and second level support for Linux 
> issues.
> 
> One of them asked about Ubuntu.  I know virtually nothing about this 
> distribution.  However, I've gotten the impression that it makes a lot 
> decisions for you.  Since these guys are developers, and we tend to need very 
> explicit versions of various tools, I've kind of steered them away from 
> Ubuntu.  Have a made a mistake?  Would this be a good distribution for them?  
> Will I be able to figure out how to help them easily configure stuff knowing 
> only general Linux stuff, and not Ubuntu in particular?
> 
> Is there a better distribution to recommend to them?
> 
> David
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