Ditching ubuntu

[Meir Michanie]

What do you think about using CENTOS with livna as a home desktop?
I want to install it and forget about it.
For Grandma, I need skype, im, flash, video camera.

> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: Re: Ditching ubuntu
> From: geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendelson at gmail.com>
> To: "Leonid Podolny" <leonidp.lists at gmail.com>
> CC: "Meir Michanie" <meirm at riunx.com>,linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
> Date: 20-05-2009 18:20
> 
> 
> 
> On May 20, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Leonid Podolny wrote:
> >
> > <flamebait> Saying all that, the decision of ditching ubuntu is a  
> > right
> > one. Ubuntu sucks, and Fedora is a second-best distribution. </ 
> > flamebait>
> 
> 
> Ubuntu suffers from the same disease that Red Hat Linux suffered from  
> in the late 1990's. To much change, too little quality control and  
> releases released to fit a schedule as opposed to getting them "right".
> 
> Eventually Red Hat wised up and dropped Red Hat Linux entirely,  
> splitting it into FEDORA with no support or quality control from them,  
> and RHEL which includes support, quality control, etc but does not  
> come out like clockwork, ready or not and costs money.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
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> geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
> Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendelson at gmail.com