Re: [tlug] Looking for a distribution to replace Ubuntu

[Alexander Danilov <alexander.a.danilov@example.com>]

Curt Sampson пишет:
> Ubuntu has a fair number of annoyances for me, as folks are probably
> gathering from my posts here. It's finally got enough stuff wrong that
> can't be fixed as easily as installing a new window manager package that
> I'm looking for a new distribution. I'd like to solicit suggustions.
>
> Here are my criteria, in approximate order of importance.
>
> * Support for "full-disk encryption," or as close as Linux gets (which I
> guess is an unencrypted boot partition), and an enter-passphrase-on-boot
> system usable by a non-sysadmin.
>
> * A working DNSSEC resolver, preferably using the BIND 9 library. This
> should be used by the standard OpenSSH package to use authenticated
> SSHFP records.
>
> * All network-facing services off by default. Well, within reason:
> disabling ICMP echo replies would be a PITA. But installing an Apache
> httpd package should certainly not start a server. Ideally, too,
> services are configured securely by default, e.g., sshd is configured to
> disallow all root logins over the network and password logins for any
> account.
>
> * Good driver support for desktop systems, particularly in the ability
> to use modern graphics cards to some basic level of performance. I can
> live with Aqua-style stuff being slow and not being able to run games,
> but I do need a basic 2-D window manager and programs such as Firefox
> to work well, and I need multiple-head support. ACPI suspend and power
> management working well would be a good bonus.
>
> * A reasonably broad range of binary packages available, and having the
> latest production-ready releases available sooner, rather than later.
> Automatic updates and all that, too. A fairly coarse package granularity
> is fine; I have little concern about how much disk space the system
> uses.
>
> * Some reasonable default configuration for window manager and so on
> that office staff comfortable with Windows and the Gnome environment
> will be comfortable with, and a set of graphical system management tools
> that enable these folks to, e.g., easily find and install programs such
> as the Gimp.
>
> * Including include files and any other basic tools one needs to compile
> against a library with the library itself, rather than as a separate
> "dev" package. I don't mind if they want to put the profiling libraries
> and suchlike in a separate package, though I'd prefer they do not.
>
> If I can find a good candidate, we'd like to replace Ubuntu on all of
> the desktops at our office, and on several notebooks.
>
> cjs

Time to use Debian.