Slashdot | Ubuntu 6.06 'Dapper Drake' Beta Available: "Ubuntu is not _just_ for n00bs.

Does a 'n00b' system admin run Debian?
not usually.

Debian is preferred because
(a) 'apt-get' makes life so blindingly simple that you don't need to worry about 90% of the hassels that come with other distros (rpm-hell anyone?)
(b) It's stable
(c) 'It Just Works!' (tm)

Ubuntu is: ALL the best of Debain + Quicker updates.
How long did it take for Debain to support SATA in the stable release? Too damn long!

Ubuntu is not totally user friendly, ie it wasn't untill Dapper that there was a GUI for setting up a pppoe internet connection. (try telling Mom to: open a terminal, type pppoe-conf, and follow the prompts.)
Sounds great on paper.

My mom, Uncle x2, wife, Mother & Father in-laws, and CLIENTS all run Ubuntu because it is easier for me to manage/admin.
I'm not a n00b. I got desperately tired of waiting for Debian Stable. Now I have all the good of Debian + modern packages.
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The thing that makes Ubuntu the distro to have is that it has a growing "n00b base". This benefits experienced Linux users, because if they are running the same distro as the people they will end up supporting, then the Linux community as a whole becomes stronger and easier for people to get into. Wouldn't it be nice to run the same system as everyone else you know, and still be using Linux?

This can be applied to programming : )

Jeet Kune Do - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do Quotes

• "The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness". - Be prepared to accept new knowledge and not be hindered or biased by old knowledge.
• "Using no way as way". - Don't have preconcieved notions about anything.
• "Having no limitation as limitation". - Don't be confined by anything, achieve true freedom.
• "From form to formless and from finite to infinite". - Don't be confined by limitations and forms.
• The consciousness of "self" is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action - This is actually a Zen or Chan maxim which means to "be in the moment" and NOT be distracted by your own thought process. The Zen quote is: "If you seek it, you will NOT find it". The "Western" counterpart to this is the term "Being in the Zone".
• "If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from "this" or from "that," then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it." - Don't get hung up on labels and parameters. JKD is alive and therefore always changing; don't try to box it in.

Things to learn

* integrate Windows Desktop App to Webservices hosted on Linux's written in Mono C#

* on near future, learn desktop front-end using GTK# or WxWidgets.NET(whichever of the two is more mature for the task) C# under Linux, but need to learn first the good stuffs on VS.NET 2005 System.Windows.Forms