Well, it seems like the list has come down to two major desktop distros,
Ubuntu and Fedora and as far as I know neither is commercial. There was
a time when Mandrake, Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, and others were all looking
at the desktop as a potential market. The survivors seem to have headed
for big servers or special cases. Meanwhile, a lot of activity has
opened up in sub-desktop consumer Linux, most notably with Google's
Android and Chrome.
mike havens wrote:
> How do you mean?
>
> On 12/1/09, *tshipley@deru.com <mailto:tshipley@deru.com>*
> <tshipley@deru.com <mailto:tshipley@deru.com>> wrote:
>
> Has anyone noticed a dramatic decrease in the number of viable
> desktop/laptop/netbook distros? (And Chrome to rule them all.)
> Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com>>
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:06:02
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> Subject: Re: linux distro
>
> I have liked the Ubuntu for laptops/desktops. Id suggest trying 9.10
> as it has a number of new features and very current hardware.
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:48 AM, mike havens <bmike1@gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Okay guys..... I'm ready to plunge into Linux again. Ever since
> Windows7
> > came out and certain companiesupdated... upgraded....
> up-whatever they did,
> > my laptop (Toshiba Satellite with an Atheros AR5005GS wireless
> card) keeps
> > on needing its registry to be cleaned. Which distro works best
> out of the
> > box with automatic detection and that kind of stuff?
> >
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