Ubuntu<\/a> promises minimum of 5 years before support and security updates may be withdrawn. Fedora says after a year, you’re on your own. That’s completely unacceptable, and would be more so if a business was using it. <\/p>\nSo Ubuntu is now installed on the test PC (the machine with Windows XP underneath). It was a little rocky as I had \/home on its own LVM partitions, and wiped out the main lvm partition. Being the cautious person I am, I had done an cp -a of both the \/ and \/home directories to another EXT4 partition that is now my new \/home<\/p>\n
Dell recently announced it is offering a ~$250 system with ubuntu preinstalled.<\/p>\n
Firefox did an excellent job of syncing my bookmarks without having to do a thing. Most of the audio used for streams seems to work “out of the box”… <\/p>\n
Getting Apache and MySQL (MarieDB) working will probably take a little time. The “Gold” copy of everything is on the production server, and the win7 machine is a backup to this one if I had totally destroyed the Fedora \/home directory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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