[HLUG] distro

[dicegeorge at hotmail dot com]

I think you should install vanilla ubuntu with a separate home partition
(and maybe other nerdy distros too)
so you will be able to help your friends and family (and me) 
install and maintain Ubuntu
and thereby help the move away from Windows dominance...

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From: "AT Ege" <andreas.ege at mymail.ch>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 7:51 AM
To: "hlug" <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [HLUG] distro

> Hi there,
> 
> while I was on holidays, the older of my hard drives went down. The last 
> backup wasn't too long ago, so no big damage. But it makes me think 
> about getting a new computer, instead of just a new harddrive. And with 
> that comes thinking about changing my linux distro.
> 
> At the moment, and for the last few years, I am using Gentoo. And while 
> I quite like the way to handle system and software administration, I get 
> more and more annoyed by the time it takes to compile from source, esp 
> if I have to install quite a few programms, like for system updates. And 
> I just don't think anymore, that with modern computers I gain enough on 
> performance side to justify the compilation time it takes. Not for me, 
> anyway.
> 
> I tried SuSE 11.x and Linux Mint on our laptop, and I'm not really 
> satisfied about them. I haven't tried fedora or (k)ubuntu yet, but I 
> guess I'll have to pinch the laptop again to do just that. In the 
> meanwhile, I would appreciate some thoughts and tips.
> 
> 
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