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[David McGlone]

On Friday 16 October 2009 17:10:49 Timothy Butler wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Ed Hurst wrote:
> > Yes, I loved Debian and friends, but I'm not the only one who
> > noticed peculiar problems. While Etch was, by far, vastly superior
> > to every other release of Debian in my experience, it's pretty much
> > dead now. The Ubuntu stuff has never worked for me, mostly 
because
> > of hardware issues and what I consider a totally different
> > subculture of expectati
>
> You know, Ed, Ubuntu would probably be a lot more pleasant on your 
new
> machine. You might try the most recent Ubuntu Long Term Support
> release on it (not Kubuntu, I'd suggest). The LTS releases would give
> you the non-rolling release style you like, and I find Ubuntu offers
> the most "just works" and "non-intrusive" functionality of the distros.

I can sort of back this up. I'm still running Ubuntu 9.04 and I really do 
like it. It doesn't install a bunch of stuff you will never use, it just 
installs the basics and lets you build onto it.

Today I finally broke down and installed kontact on Ubuntu, but only 
because Evolution would not let me create IMAP folders. I also like 
kontact better anyway.