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On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 14/10/11 21:07, Dave Morgan wrote: >> >> On 13/10/2011, Martin Gautier<martin.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On 13/10/11 20:33, Grant Sewell wrote: >>>> >>>> To be fair, Ubuntu does seem to aim their LTS releases as the "just >>>> right" ones. I would be very surprised if the Unity released as part >>>> of 12.04 was badly buggy. They've had a fair whack of time to iron out >>>> the major kinks. >>>> >>>> Grant. >>> >>> I tend to agree. >>> >>> I can't fault their LTS server editions. >>> >>> I'm more concerned about Unity's missing features and configuration >>> ability. I trust the existing tools to be good quality - I just think >>> it's not ready for more than casual use yet... I'll be happy to stand >>> corrected - I'll see over the weekend... >>> >>> Martin >>> >>> -- >>> The Mailing List for the Devon& Cornwall LUG >>> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >>> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq >>> >> >> I just upgraded my spare laptop to 11.10 >> >> HATE IT >> HATE IT >> HATE IT >> >> Fortunatyl my other two ubuntu boxes are not capable of being upgraded >> (one only has 650 Mb free space, the other is locked to 8.04LTS by the >> video card and motherboard) > > Is that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS desktop? AFAIK that isn't supported anymore on the > desktop. Is Debian an option maybe? > >> >> I might end up wiping and installing something else on it. >> >> best regards >> DAve >> > > Hopefully Linux Mint will still be sticking with Gnome at least for the next > release (although when I did check I wasn't able to find anything conclusive > to say if they would be or not). There is always Xubuntu and Mint LXDE > editions which aren't bad (I quite like the Mint LXDE edition now I've > played with it a bit on some lower spec machines). > > Or I guess maybe look at other distros, Debian, Fedora, SuSE etc? I read (in a magazine) that Pardus Lixux is pretty good - and not that well known outside of its native Turkey. It is gentoo based. If I find time I would like to give that a spin sometime. Roly :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq