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   Subject: Re: Canonical and Linspire Announce Technology Partnership   
   From: SINNER    
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   Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:05:19 GMT   
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   * MCR wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
      
   > SINNER wrote:   
   >> http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story   
   >> /02-08-2007/0004523131&EDATE=    
   >>    
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   > This is good news.  Now that Linspire can take the heat for   
   > distrubuting binary blobs in their distro and us ubuntu users get to   
   > use an official tool, similar to Automatix I guess to make our systems   
   > easier to maintain.    
   >    
   > The question is,.. do users recommend Ubuntu or Linspire for noobs?   
   >    
      
   I cannot, in my heart reccommend anything that is so windows like as to    
   make the user think they are using windows, it will just lead to bad    
   feelings about the OS. IMO, Users should always be able to see and feel    
   like they are in a different OS so they can adjust their expectations    
   accordingly. So if a newb were to ask me, I would still reccomend Ubuntu,    
   but I myself am considering moving on to somethiing a bit less newb    
   friendly as I feel my learning is stagnating. Maybe I need to create a    
   few problems ;)   
      
   --    
   David   
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