What's all the hype over Ubuntu?

[Les Mikesell]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
>>
>>  > I'm not trying to start a battle of which is better…just trying to get
>>  > an idea of why its seems so popular.
>>
>>  Well something else to throw into the pot along with the other answers,
>>  on several occasions I've heard Ubuntu fans cite the fact it doesn't use
>>  rpm (ubuntu uses deb) as one of the main reasons they use it because
>>  they don't like the "dependency hell" of rpm. Personally I think that
>>  view is at best outdated but each to their own. :-)
>>
> 
> It's a ridiculous view point as in terms of dependencies rpms and debs
> are almost equivalent. Both are capable of causing dep problems. The
> only major diff that I am aware of is that devs have a concept of soft
> deps for optional packages

There don't seem to be a bazillion independent .deb repositories with 
conflicting contents, though, and more or at least equivalent total 
content.  Is that from fewer political/policy disagreements?

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   Les Mikesell
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