Common problems with Ubuntu

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 20:16 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:53:46PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:54 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > > I'd probably give bonus points to a distro that allows you to check a
> > > > "Development" box at install time.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Fedora had that back when it was called Fedora Core, but I haven't
> > > used it since then.
> > > 
> > 
> > Fedora still has it. (Development tools are a big part of Fedora)
> 
> The reason for that is because Ubuntu is installed from a single CD,
> whereas Fedora is installed from a larger set of CDs.
> 
> However, installing "development tools" is trivial - just let the
> package manager do that. You can easily automate the installation to
> provide you the exact set of packages you need (in both distributions).
> 
> Normally I don't need most existing "development" packages anyway.
> 

True.
Though, I doubt that the OP will care if he's installing Linux from a
single LiveCD or from an installation DVD. (I would assume that if he's
talking about multiple machines, the DVD version will be far less
bandwidth hog)

- Gilboa