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   From: ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com>   
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Canonical and Linspire Announce Technology Partnership   
   Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:45:12 +0000   
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   MCR wrote:   
   > SINNER wrote:   
   >> http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/   
   ww/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?   
      
   When WalMart or whoever sell a linuxPC it will be Linspire, knowing    
   that any wider codec issues are sorted. They also will know that the    
   ubuntu community will be close by to help users who ask for  support.   
      
   When the more ambitious PC users want to try linux I think they will    
   choose Ubuntu.   
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