nUbuntu

[xXKelbaXx]

Has anyone heard of nUbuntu (www.nubuntu.org? It's a distro based on a network security focus and comes packaged with a lot of security tools (which can be easily abused...). It's a LiveCD that will soon come with hard drive installation, but at the moment you can use espresso to install it to the HDD. Anyway my question is has anyone used it, and what is your opinion on it? I recently got a weak laptop I will be using, and was thinking of dual-booting. Any other distros anyone knows that focus on networking? I believe there was one called Whax but I have yet to look into it.

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[TheCotMan]

Has anyone heard of nUbuntu (www.nubuntu.org)? It's a distro based on a network security focus and comes packaged with a lot of security tools (which can be easily abused...). It's a LiveCD that will soon come with hard drive installation, but at the moment you can use espresso to install it to the HDD. Anyway my question is has anyone used it, and what is your opinion on it? I recently got a weak laptop I will be using, and was thinking of dual-booting. Any other distros anyone knows that focus on networking? I believe there was one called Whax but I have yet to look into it.

("nubuntu" Are you sure you are not thinking of ubuntu?)

A forum search would show that Ubuntu has been mentioned in several other threads. It is easy to use, and install, and does a pretty good job at autodetection of hardware in many laptops.

Coming from a Debian background, however, I worry about the path for Major version upgrades. From Debian, I've been able to upgrade Debian 1.3 to 2.0, and 2.0 to 2.2 and 2.2 to 3.0 and 3.0 up through various 3.0 and to include testing and unstable.

Will Ubuntu make major upgrades possible through apt-get and have those upgrades work as well as they do under Debian?

Setting up a Mythbox with Ubuntu was easier too. It is impressive for being free.

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Ah. I see. Your link was munged. It should have been:
http://www.nubuntu.org/

Nope. I've not used it.

[xwred1]

My main desktop started as an Ubuntu Hoary install, than I dist-upgraded it to Breezy and it worked ok. After that, I dist-upgraded it to the Dapper beta, and it still seems to be ok. I'm sure there's some redundant packages in there someplace, but overall it feels same as if I'd done a proper new install.