I understand Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian.  I just want to find out 
what differences there are between the two.

thanks
Derek
On 12/15/2012 03:12 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> Last year I got a new computer with WIN7 too and got rid of it within 
> two weeks.
> Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian.
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Derek Trotter 
> <expat.arizonan@gmail.com <mailto:expat.arizonan@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 12/15/2012 12:30 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>
>         On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 06:49:48PM -0700, joe@actionline.com
>         <mailto:joe@actionline.com> wrote:
>
>             Thanks to all for all the suggestions. After wasting
>             several days trying
>             figure out M$ convoluted maze, I finally found a free
>             utility called
>             partition wizard that installed and instantly fixed the
>             problem.
>
>             It is incomprehensible and unconscionable that M$ is so
>             determined to make
>             everything so impossibly convoluted and difficult. Viva Linux.
>
>         I completely agree. My step daughter moved in for a few weeks
>         and I got
>         to play with her Win7 netbook. After two days of wrestling
>         with the way
>         M$ wanted you to do things, I said thanks but no thanks, and
>         that was
>         with her showing me how and me reading a big manual she had
>         with her.
>
>         God how I love my Debian and it's not a matter of what I'm
>         used to!
>
>
>     I can sympathize.  Last January I bought a computer that came with
>     windows 7.  I tried it for about a month and was thoroughly
>     disgusted with how difficult everything was in windows 7.  M$ made
>     it so ******* difficult to network two computers together.   In xp
>     it was a simple task.  Also some games I have don't run right on
>     7. I ended up getting rid of 7 and putting xp on the machine.
>      Then in November I got tired of xp, removed it and replaced it
>     with kubuntu and I'm happy with it.
>
>     You say you run Debian.  How does Debian differ from ubuntu/kubuntu?
>
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