# Ubuntu considerations, thinking about installing it.

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**Created:** [May 1, 2007, 9:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ubuntu-considerations-thinking-about-installing-it/28595 "2007-05-01T09:14:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ubuntu-considerations-thinking-about-installing-it/28595/25 "2007-05-02T11:42:11Z")

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I tried Fedora… well Red Hat and then Mandrake, back when rpm dependency hell existed… And it definitely was hell. When Debian came out with apt-get that was all I needed to know before switching.

Just thinking about rpm’s leaves a foul taste in my mouth…

Actually at work we have a fedora core 2 box and while getting apt-get setup on it was a bitch (well not really, but it took about 15 minutes) it worked really well and the repo’s were really nice.

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