Re: better distro for laptops ??

[dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca]

Thus spake brian morris (cymraegish@yahoo.com):
...
> p.s. now thinking about reorganizing my
> newer laptop to take linux - unsatisfied with
> mac os X. not sure best way tho, probably
> i will stick with debian. gentoo would work
> tho as well as kubuntu or mandriva. (the
> latter two i believe both Debian forks).

ubuntu is a debian fork using gnome and kubuntu is the kde version -
they share repositories.

AFAIK Mandriva is the renamed Mandrake, which certainly used to be a
Red Hat fork and (makes arms into cross) rpm-based.

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