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Last nite I downloaded the business card CD edition of the Debian stable net-install CD.  I love having an excuse to use those business card CDs!

What I like about this (and wonder why Ubuntu doesn’t offer a net-install CD) is 1) its super light.  Anything small enough for a business card CD is impressive to me.  I’ve got DSL in my planner as well.  2) When I can download the packages via mirrors.xmission.com and Utopia I get everything VERY fast.  I think my average download was ~12Mbps.  Gotta love in-network Utopia downloads.

For any of you familiar with both Debian and Ubuntu.  Is there any drastic differences in the two that I should know?  I’m really familiar with Ubuntu and, so far, they seem similar enough.  I’m just curious if there are areas where Ubuntu really forked off.

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  1. December 26th, 2007 at 10:55 | #1

    AFAIK, *Ubuntu is more user friendly, while Debian is more hardcore. But both are the samething, at all.

    Debian is much more stable, while *Ubuntu is an edge distro.

    HTH,

    davi

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