A new Linux recommendation
Cole Tuininga
colet at code-energy.com
Thu Sep 29 13:07:05 EDT 2005
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)
--
"Maybe I'll be able to get a job when I graduate..."
-Linus Torvalds
Cole Tuininga
Lead Developer
Code Energy, Inc
colet at code-energy.com
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