Debian or Ubuntu for a desktop box?

[Alex Dean]

Yup, I discovered that yesterday morning when I tried to build a PHP  
extension from source...  apt-get install build-utils (or something  
like that) was all it took.

On Jun 12, 2006, at 9:46 PM, Mike Garfias wrote:

> Just made me think of something.
>
> I'm running ubuntu on my server now as Deb's 64bit port was broken  
> last I
> checked.  I've had a number of annoyances with it.
>
> All related to what gets installed by default.  What doesn't go  
> in.  Things
> like traceroute and whois.  Things like C compilers.  Not hard to  
> fix, but
> annoying when they're not there.
>
> Alex Dean spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
>> Thanks all for the replies.  I will probably answer my own question
>> eventually.  I've installed Ubuntu 6.06 and have been very happy with
>> it so far.  Easy to install and use, and lots of packages readily
>> available.  I'll try a Debian desktop someday, but it might be a
>> while.  (As long as Ubuntu is getting the job done, I won't  
>> replace it.)
>>
>> alex

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