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A new Linux recommendation



On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, David Hummel wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:10:06PM -0400, Paul Norton 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.


					~Ben




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