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Zach posted this (sorry, over a week ago!) from a non-subscribed address.
Fwding to the list for him.

-bill!

----- Forwarded message from vox-bounces@lists.lugod.org -----

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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:32:09 -0800
From: Zachariah Johnson <zjohnson@itd.ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Re: [vox] re: linux recommendation
To: LUGOD's general discussion mailing list <vox@lists.lugod.org>

Rod Roark wrote:
>On Monday 05 March 2007 18:45, Cylar Z wrote:
>...
>  
>>I was wondering - why didn't anyone mention Fedora
>>Core from Red Hat?
>>    
>
>Isn't FC a "test bed" distribution -- and with a relatively short
>support cycle?  Whereas desktop Ubuntu gets updates for 18 months or
>3 years, depending on the version.
>
>Rod
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Yeah, Redhat sort of blew it with FC, they had a good hold on the Linux 
Desktop Market, but are losing it if they have not already.

By far my favorite dist is Ubuntu right now.  Kbuntu is nice if you're 
down with KDE.


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