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Re: [LUG] Ubuntu 11.10... ?

 

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 14/10/11 21:07, Dave Morgan wrote:
>>
>> On 13/10/2011, Martin Gautier<martin.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 13/10/11 20:33, Grant Sewell wrote:
>>>>
>>>> To be fair, Ubuntu does seem to aim their LTS releases as the "just
>>>> right" ones.  I would be very surprised if the Unity released as part
>>>> of 12.04 was badly buggy.  They've had a fair whack of time to iron out
>>>> the major kinks.
>>>>
>>>> Grant.
>>>
>>> I tend to agree.
>>>
>>> I can't fault their LTS server editions.
>>>
>>> I'm more concerned about Unity's missing features and configuration
>>> ability. I trust the existing tools to be good quality - I just think
>>> it's not ready for more than casual use yet... I'll be happy to stand
>>> corrected - I'll see over the weekend...
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
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>>
>> I just upgraded my spare laptop to 11.10
>>
>> HATE IT
>> HATE IT
>> HATE IT
>>
>> Fortunatyl my other two ubuntu boxes are not capable of being upgraded
>> (one only has 650 Mb free space, the other is locked to 8.04LTS by the
>> video card and motherboard)
>
> Is that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS desktop?  AFAIK that isn't supported anymore on the
> desktop.  Is Debian an option maybe?
>
>>
>> I might end up wiping and installing something else on it.
>>
>> best regards
>> DAve
>>
>
> Hopefully Linux Mint will still be sticking with Gnome at least for the next
> release (although when I did check I wasn't able to find anything conclusive
> to say if they would be or not).  There is always Xubuntu and Mint LXDE
> editions which aren't bad (I quite like the Mint LXDE edition now I've
> played with it a bit on some lower spec machines).
>
> Or I guess maybe look at other distros, Debian, Fedora, SuSE etc?


I read (in a magazine) that Pardus Lixux is pretty good - and not that
well known outside of its native Turkey. It is gentoo based. If I find
time I would like to give that a spin sometime.

Roly :-)

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