Ubuntu or Debian?

**Malibu Illusion** · July 3rd, 2007

Originally Posted by Buffalo Soldier

Now... where do I download the human icon/theme???....

I'd have thought losing that would have been one of the advantages of installing pretty much any other distribution, haha. ^^

I've been using Debian Etch (stable) for a long while on my desktop; it's a great OS, although I'd probably recommend Debian Lenny (testing) to anyone wishing to use it as a desktop platform with more up to date packages.

Take care.

**Buffalo Soldier** · July 4th, 2007

Originally Posted by Malibu Illusion

I'd have thought losing that would have been one of the advantages of installing pretty much any other distribution, haha. ^^

I've been using Debian Etch (stable) for a long while on my desktop; it's a great OS, although I'd probably recommend Debian Lenny (testing) to anyone wishing to use it as a desktop platform with more up to date packages.

Take care.

I guess I'm one of those few that loves the brown/orange looks

Do you have any real experience with Lenny? How do you rate it's stability against Feisty and Dapper (LTS)?

**Malibu Illusion** · July 4th, 2007

Unfortunately I can't talk from experience in direct relation to the stability against Feisty or Dapper, since I've mainly done the majority of my computing on the "stable" branch which I've found adequate for my own personal needs. I recognize that a lot of people prefer more bleeding edge packages on their desktop systems though which is why I'd recommend people who are looking for that taking a look at the Lenny line over stable, Debian-wise.

Theoretically speaking, Debian Lenny should be more stable than Ubuntu as the code in that branch has been tested slightly more in comparison with the Debian Sid snapshots that Ubuntu take at 6 monthly intervals of code that potentially has not been debugged yet. Lenny would have slightly less up-to-date packages but should, in theory, have the stability over Ubuntu which is, essentially, snapshotted absolute bleeding-edge Debian.

**andrek** · July 6th, 2007

I'm a Debian Sid user now. Even if it's called as unstable, it's as stable as feisty fawn, which means it's stable as hell

It's way faster than ubuntu, debian's repo are also great. Everything is really similiar.. You don't only use sudo ( but after few tweaks you can.. ). You just have to switch to root ( by typing 'su' and password ).
So.. to be honest, I'd recommend 'unstable' Debian Sid for everyone

**juxtaposed** · July 7th, 2007

Do you have any real experience with Lenny? How do you rate it's stability against Feisty and Dapper (LTS)?

I used lenny for a bit and found it to be stable. Then I used sid and found it to be stable also. But then again, Ubuntu Hoary, Breezy, and Feisty were all stable for me.

Then I switched to etch as I didn't feel like even thinking about updates

( but after few tweaks you can.. ).

And those tweaks are... Edit /etc/sudoers