[plug] Fedora Core 5 - Install

[Shayne O'Neill]

Yeah, Xandros is great, although its been a while. It does a pretty
convincing job of hiding the underbelly
>From joe-user, whilst still letting you get in if you must. Its got a
few weird quirks (the desktop environment
Is pretty much a non-standard KDE, although xandros's additions are
great. 

Seriously however, if you want more of the "real thing", do be sure to
check out Ubuntu if you are not
Completely adverse to the odd file edit.  It's a really nice OS, that
combines the geek-friendlyness of debian with the user-friendlyness of
xandros. Plus it's a really nice clean gnome desktop, and I like gnome a
lot.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of hatari
Sent: Monday, 24 July 2006 9:07 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Fedora Core 5 - Install

Shayne O'Neill wrote:
>>Diversity gives choice - but too much diversity causes 
>>factionalisation
> 
> away from the central cause - ie Instead >of the fight being between 
> Linux vs Microsoft - it seems to increase the tendency for distro wars

> - then you add >in the differences with the Solaris systems and the 
> BSD systems as well.
> 
> I still reckon there are only three types of linux these days
> 
> Red hat (and its children , ie mandrake/SuSe/etc) Debian (and its 
> children, ubuntu, Xandros, etc) And Gentoo (and its children, if it 
> has any)
> 
> I just stick to debian stuff and my knowledge transfers nicely. Debian

> for the server, Ubuntu for the desktop, and Xandros for my
grandmother.
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Should we include BSD (and it's children, ie FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc.) or
is doing THAAT not a "Lin" thing?

OK, could it/they be illegitimate chldren then?

P.S. Kev's almost talked me into Xandros.  However I might wait till my
newly-installed Debian breaks. (Damn; if only I can find that Services
panel!)

wayne

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