[Liverpool] Introductions are in order

[Mark Atherton]

David Watson wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 22:02 +0000, mark atherton wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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I think that would confuse lots of people. Actually just add a cron job 
to auto reboot every 20 mins and they shouldnt notice.