A new Linux recommendation

[jjones at moorscabot.com (Jeffrey Jones)]

Can somebody tell me how to get off this list....
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From: discuss-bounces at blu.org <discuss-bounces at blu.org>
To: Boston Linux Users Group <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Thu Sep 29 13:07:05 2005
Subject: Re: A new Linux recommendation

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 13:01 -0400, Ben Jackson wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, David Hummel wrote:
> 
> > > I recommend Ubuntu.
> >
> > Another thing to mention about Ubuntu is that, unlike a number of other
> > distributions, they seem to have figured out seemless upgrading.  The
> > upgrade from warty to hoary was totally painless (edit
> > /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get dist-upgrade).
> 
> Thirded. Ubuntu is now my recommendation for people that approach me with
> the whole "I want to learn this Linux thing" and it's easily upgradable to
> something that power users can use too.

<aol>Me too</aol>

We've moved all of our workstations at the office over to Ubuntu, and my
wife's been using it for months now.  She likes it quite well and is now
at a point where she complains if she has boot back into Windows for
anything.  (Which is a rare occasion for us)

-- 
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 -Linus Torvalds

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