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Decisions, Decisions
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| The time finally came to upgrade my wife's
| computer. She's been running Xandros 4 Linux
| -- based on Debian 3.1 "Sarge," two releases
| out of date -- and it's been working just
| fine. But she now has a new HP printer, not
| supported by Xandros 4. And her old version
| of Firefox is starting to be rejected by some
| websites. Both Debian 3.1 and Xandros 4 are
| no longer supported -- they still have
| functioning repositories, but no new or
| updated programs are being added to those
| repositories.
|
| [...]
|
| For the first cut, I settled on three
| candidates.
|
| Debian 5 "Lenny." This is what I'm using on
| my desktop, and our full-size laptop. Its
| advantages are that it's stable (new releases
| are infrequent), old releases are well
| supported, it has a huge software repository,
| it would make both our desktop PCs identical,
| and I'm familiar with it. Its chief
| disadvantage is that of all the distros I've
| tried, it's the most difficult to configure
| -- not a job for a new user.
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http://www.goodbyemicrosoft.net/news.php?item.549.2
Testing Chromium on Ubuntu
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| Iâve read a lot about Googleâs Chrome browser
| in the blogosphere, but have yet to see it
| being used in the wild. Given this
| observation, and my increasingly strained
| relationship with Firefox, I decided to give
| Chromium, the open-source browser on which
| Chrome is based, another try. Hereâs what I
| found.
|
| [...]
|
| All in all, Chromium is a very solid web
| browser, and I will probably stick with it
| for the time being as long as I donât
| experience any major bugs. Iâm not going to
| say Ubuntu should ditch Firefox and install
| Chromium by default, but Googleâs browser is
| definitely worth checking out for those who
| have grown tired of the Mozilla world.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/12/testing-chromium-on-ubuntu/
Recent:
2009 Milestones for Debian GNU/Linux
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| In February 2009 Debian released version 5.0,
| âLennyâ with more than 25 000 packages
| including many security enhancements such as
| PHPâs Suhosin system.
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http://blog.remoteresponder.net/2010/01/04/2009-milestones-for-debian-gnulinux/
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