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   Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:55:04 +0000   
   From: Bernard Peek    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Canonical and Linspire Announce Technology Partnership   
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   In message <1UMyh.35601$j43.10410@newsfe29.ams>, MCR    
    writes   
   >SINNER wrote:   
   >>    
   >>http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/   
   >>02-08-2007/0004523131&EDATE=   
   >>   
   >   
   >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?   
      
   Every noob and every situation is different. If it's someone who has a    
   lot of Windows experience and just wants something similar then    
   Linspire. If it was a techie asking I'd suggest Ubuntu.   
      
      
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