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On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 11:29 AM Stephen Elliott <tnflyfisher@live.com> wrote:
What is the purpose of all these different distros?


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>   1. Re: Phoenix Linux (Matthew Crews)
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> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 15:15:37 +0100 (CET)
> From: Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com>
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> Subject: Re: Phoenix Linux
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> On 3/1/19 6:18 PM, der.hans wrote:
>> moin moin,
>>
>> I have seen references to this, but for the first time went and looked.
>>
>> Phoenix Linux - based on lubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
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>> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphoenixlinux.weebly.com%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C763b23d1df1b4e6336a108d6a00a7265%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636872364060787903&amp;sdata=gbDmb4Xv3bBpMO%2By4qtTA2sPhge2s82e39Mx3Daj%2F0M%3D&amp;reserved=0
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>> Has anyone tried it?
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>> ciao,
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>> der.hans
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> I haven't tried it, but it looks like a hobby respin of Lubuntu, but
> with  none of the support (and lagging behind upstream by a significant
> margin).
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> Hobby distros, especially hobby respins, are a tough sell for me because
> of the lack of support. I'd normally prefer to stick to upstream (in
> this case, Lubuntu).
>
> The same person responsible for Phoenix also makes Feren OS, which is
> based off of Linux Mint (and in the process of rebasing to Ubuntu LTS).
> Feren is relatively well received and does have a support structure, and
> looks fairly nice.
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