linux distro

[Trent Shipley]

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 at deru.com <mailto:tshipley at deru.com>*
> <tshipley at deru.com <mailto:tshipley at 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 at gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>>
>     Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:06:02
>     To: Main PLUG discussion
>     list<plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>     <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>>
>     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 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bmike1 at 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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