[Liverpool] Introductions are in order

[David Watson]

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 22:02 +0000, mark atherton wrote:
> See this is the problem i find with a number of distros. Alot of them arent 
> very well polished and have some stupid flaws. For example i remember a 
> problem with mandrake 9.2 that caused you to loose the entire KDE menu as 
> soon as you installed any from the in built package manager. It problem like 
> these which you expect to see in pre-releases only. It is little things like 
> this, that while easily fixed if you have a little knowledge, put many new 
> users off linux.
> I've heard good things about ubuntu but as of yet havent had a chance to try 
> it. There are a number of simple distros which are good to get started with. 
> I find mandrake rush release as i always had a few problem with each new 
> release. Fedora is nice and simple but it has a lot of new technologies and 
> new versions of software which may not be the most stable and tested. Ive 
> never used suse but a boxed set of one of suse professional is meant to be a 
> good start. It costs money but you get a lots of good documentation in 
> there.

Ubuntu is certainly a step in the right direction, although it is not
without faults.  If they can improve with each release in a few releases
this could be 'the' distro, polished and with commercial support.  If
only I could replace RedmondOS in work.


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