Ubuntu Install / Weekend warrior project

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2018, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>Let me how how -you- 'enjoy' Debian.  I at least know your sensibilities
>when it comes to *nix engineering, so your opinion is a valid benchmark for
>me, as opposed to someone with whom I've never really discussed it for more
>than 20 minutes or a few emails.
>
>If Debian is a prereq for R-Pi, forget it, I'm out.  And I was even
>considering it a few days ago.  This assumes the earlier assertion someone
>made that the really weird stuff was done by Debian, not Ubuntu, is
>actually valid, of course.  I'll have to take someone's word for that.  In
>the time it would take to explore it for myself on personal time, I could
>work on a song, play a game, or do something else more enjoyable...even
>creating mobile apps, which I've wanted to do for years.  Too many hobbies,
>not enough lifetime.

As I understand it after reading a couple of very bad books from
Amazon, and Raspberry Pi for Dummies (a good book), the default
Linux for Raspberry Pi is based on Ubuntu.

My Linux experience is Caldera->SuSE->CentOS, and I've never done
anything serious with other distros.  All the software I have
written and support is built under the OpenPKG portable package
management system which is RPM based so I haven't worried about
the distributions configuaration or run control.

I just ordered a Raspberry Pi 3B+ kit from Amazon along with a
USB to Ethernet adapter which I should have this weekend.  I
won't get a chance to play with it until next week as I have too
many Honey-Do's that will keep me busy until then.

Bill
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