Ubuntu Receives IBM DB2 Certification

Khakionion writes "Ubuntu has announced their recent certification for IBM's DB2 Universal Database for Linux. Quite a big step for Ubuntu towards becoming one of the heavyweights of the Linux world." From the announcement: "With an respected product like DB2 on Ubuntu, our partners will relish the chance to discuss database and solution choices with their clients."

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Compiling Anyway

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

At this point, I've been having so many dependency issues with apt and yum, that 70% of the time, I end up compiling from source anyway. So I'm in fact moving to Gentoo. I'm sure it won't be a paneaca of all my dependency ills, but the way things stand I'm practically running a custom compiled system anyway.

Re:Compiling Anyway

[moro_666]

i've been using debian for 4 years now ... i admit i like the apt as it is and the dependancy issues can usually be resolved with some effort.

but the thing that bothers me is that debian is lately lagging far behind of the actual releases. for example, when slashdot was writing that 1.0.x version of firefox is invulnerable to something and all the previous versions too, then sitting on 1.0.(x-2) doesn't really feel good, and the waiting 2 months to get the upgrade smells funny.

tried out gentoo lately too ... imho it rocks. yea people dont like building the stuff all the time, but that is the choice you have to take when it comes down to staying on the bleeding edge. sometimes you even want to choose stuff that isn't bleeding edge but is defacto standard, like x.org, but debian had enormous problems to break off from the xfree86 server (and i'm not even now sure that it has braken off from it, i use ubuntu packages right now...)

the thing that really annoys is that mplayer tends to break all the time if installed from packages, so i compile that one myself and only update it if really breaks down (not when the package manager decides that it shouldnt be here anymore). and marillat tends to change the directories from time to time :s

if debian breaks this lagging behind and gets some improvement to the dependancy problems it's probably one of the best distros out there.

commercial distros i just dislike and once i saw dpkg i never looked at rpm hell again ( and i hope never will have to look at it again :D ).