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Distros

I Drank The Ubuntu Kool-Aid And It Didn’t Taste Good

by Rob on April 24, 2009

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There has been an awful amount of hype surrounding the latest release of Ubuntu.  People have been upgrading their systems for weeks now and giving glowing reviews.  I see articles on sites like Digg or Reddit daily, and for reasons I’m still not sure of, I decided to ditch my beautiful Arch setup and install [...]

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How Long Until There Is A Linux Distro Focused On Social Media?

by Rob on April 23, 2009

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If you check out DistroWatch.com you will see hundreds of Linux distros available.  They’re not all widely known, as some are for specialized purposes.  You’ll find some that are just for servers and others that were created for a specific task.  There are distros out there for just about every purpose you can think of.
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If Your Distro Died And Went To Linux Heaven

by Rob on April 22, 2009

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Let me pose a hypothetical sitution to you.  Suppose your distro of choice, whatever it may be, were to fold and no longer exist.  What would you do?  Would you switch to another distro, or would you jump to a different OS?
This will likely never happen for the larger Linux distros, but the situation is [...]

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