[Lazarus] Off-topic: Debian vs Ubuntu

[Michael Schnell]

On 03/29/2011 10:13 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> I believe it is now a Gnome distro (mainly), but I just had a quick 
> look and see they have a KDE version too. Any suggestion on which to 
> choose?
You have several Desktop choices out of the Box: KDE, Gnome and some 
small ones. I use KDE on the Workstations and just "init 3" in the 
servers (sometimes attaching graphically via NX)
>  Is Suse deb or rpm based? 
RPM
> Does it have normal run-levels defined?
you have B (boot), 1(single user) , 2 (multi user), 3 (multi-user with 
network), 5 multi-user with network and GUI, and 6 (shutdown)
>> Since yesterday I happily run
>> Debian on an old small Slug to have it work as a NAS.
>
> That's what made me think that I must maybe try Debian directly. I 
> quite like deb packages and the apt system (and use AptOnCD a lot), 
> and got used to the Debian filesystem layout/design from working with 
> Ubuntu. But lately Ubuntu seems to be going off it's rockers.
I of course did use apt to install and upgrade the system, but I only 
followed the instructions I found. The file system layout seem quite 
similar with Suse and Debian.Debian is lacking the rcxxx scripts 
pointing to /etc/init.d/xxx, but you can easily create them or just go 
"/etc/init.d/xxx"instead. The run level scrips in /etc/init.d/xx scripts 
themselves seem to work quite similar.

-Michael