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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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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 15:15:37 +0100 (CET)
> > From: Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com>
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphoenixlinux.weebly.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C763b23d1df1b4e6336a108d6a00a7265%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636872364060787903&sdata=gbDmb4Xv3bBpMO%2By4qtTA2sPhge2s82e39Mx3Daj%2F0M%3D&reserved=0
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> >> Has anyone tried it?
> >>
> >> ciao,
> >>
> >> der.hans
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > 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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