Ubuntu To Debian
Posted: June 11th, 2007 | Author: saldarji | Filed under: technology | 1 Comment »I failed to upgrade from Edgy Eft to Feisty Fawn. I blame it on myself for attempting to go from Ubuntu to Kubuntu at the same time. I ran across a puzzling error trying to load up X. Also, I encountered issues with my Broadcom 4306 wireless card. I shouldn’t be surprised since it has given me trouble ever since I switched to GNU/Linux.
The last straw was when I went to get root privileges to troubleshoot my situation. I forgot that Ubuntu reserves the root account for the system for security reasons. That made me switch to Debian.
It is funny, without the desktop pattern Debian is a very minimal install. I know because I have a server running off of a laptop. I think that when I installed the desktop pattern it gave me a lot of stuff I don’t need (games, 3 text editors, etc.). I think I may have to remove a bunch of packages to get it back to a nice minimal install!
All of this reminds me of the funny geek phrase – Ubuntu is an ancient african word, meaning “I can’t configure Debian”.
So tell us, did you like Debian? How was your experience setting it up?