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Originally Posted by chickencandle
I've been hearing a lot about Ubuntu as of late. Is it really as nice as Debian tends to be?
I run Debian on a few servers, but on my client machine I run Redhat (FC2, actually). I'd be curious to hear some opinions about switching to Ubuntu
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No, I don't really find it suitable for servers... stay with Woody (till Sarge "stable" is out-don't ask when, though...) or try Slackware, satisfaction guaranteed.
(K)Ubuntu is meant as a modern/up-to-date and stable Debian for the desktop, and it almost makes the task. But some non-GPL things (MP3 playback/decoding/encoding, P2P, java...) will not FULLY work even if you enable the unofficial repositories and get stuff from here... having full functionality needs quite some footwork, and that's quite annoying, since other distros (PCLinuxOS, Mepis, Kanotix, Arch, Gentoo) don't have any of those limitations and shout out loud right after unboxing...
IMHO the best Debian wrap for the desktop (and particularly for laptops) is currently Kanotix. It's only disadvantage is that the package base is SID, which is rather buggy, as you may already know...