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[DPRG] Ubuntu for Robotics
Subject: [DPRG] Ubuntu for Robotics
From: Dave Hylands
dhylands at gmail.com
Date: Thu Jan 10 10:49:02 CST 2008
Hi David,
Meant to reply to the list - sorry for the duplicate.
> Driverless Car:
>
> <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjI3NA>
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> Might be interesting to know why they chose Ubuntu over
> Red Hat for their Linux robot.
I'm not sure why they chose ubuntu, but I can tell you that I chose to
install ubuntu on my laptop over RedHat for a couple of reasons:
1 - Active community
2 - I prefer the debian based package managers. They deal with
dependencies much better than RPM based package managers. Ubuntu, uses
a debian based pacakage manager, whereas RedHat uses RPMs.
3 - Ubuntu has a live-CD, which means you can boot off the CD and test
things out. I imagine RedHat has this by now as well, but I'm not
sure.
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Dave Hylands
Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://www.DaveHylands.com/
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