On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Matt Hallacy wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 13:50 -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Matt Hallacy wrote:
>>
>>> If you want a solid server distribution, CentOS, RHEL maybe Slackware.
>>> If you want a solid desktop/laptop distribution, Fedora, or SuSE.
>>
>>
>> Is there anything wrong with Ubuntu?
>
> Despite all the hard work the Ubuntu folks have put into it, it still 
> receives a great deal of its package repository from Debian which has 
> proven repeatedly that they really have no standards for package quality 
> or package maintainers.


No standards at all?  That is bad.  I haven't had any problems yet, that I 
know of.  I thought one of the arguments advanced in favor of Ubuntu was 
that it was like Debian with better packages -- more up to date, at least.

Mike