Re: [LUG] What should I go for?

[Kevin Lucas <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jody 
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On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 20:10 +0100, jody salt wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>  
> I'm finally going to go completely Linux! I'm going to be converting
> both my laptop and desktop PC.
>  
> So basically I was wondering what distro to go for. Should it be
> Ubuntu or Fedora?
>  
> I would have gone for Fedora 7 straight away but the download sections
> doesn't have CD Images available, and I don't have a DVD Writer. I
> guese could go for an older version (Fedora 6 has CD's) what do you
> think? Is it wise to go for an older version?
>  
> As a server I've always used Redhat/Fedora and never really tried
> anything else apart from slackware linux (the first linux I tried).
>  
> My other option is try out a different distro - I've been thinking
> about Ubuntu linux. Does the desktop version come with all the
> standard servers. Or does server edition come with an Xwindows system?
> I basically want a system with everything on it (Like Fedora).
>  
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>  
> I'm 100% commited to the Linux to the route. So if you help me out by
> the weekend there will two less windows machines running!
>  
> Cheers
>  
> Jody
> 
> 
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