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10 Linux distros to watch in 2014

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Re: 10 Linux distros to watch in 2014

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Its been interesting to watch journalist distro reviews over the decades. In the olden days it was all about the install. The difference between a good or bad distro was did the installer have a graphical image on boot, or text mode. No journalist commentary on OS features or actual usage, the sole quality of an entire OS was just the installer. According to the journalists no one ever does anything with linux that i…

>> Now its all about the window manager

Imho, now it's all about creating as many tiny pages as possible to show as much ads as possible for a tiny article (referring to the "slideshow" that the article is).

Re: 10 Linux distros to watch in 2014

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I think 2014 is the year for fedora. It is the best solution I see to avoid the insane unity and to have a reliable, modern mainstream distribution.

What's been a dealbreaker for me is Fedora's behavior as a VM client, both with VirtualBox and VMWare. Sound never works, screen resolution can't be resized, and video just goes away sometimes. It really helps that Ubuntu has VMWare client libs right in the repository.

Re: 10 Linux distros to watch in 2014

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post #15

Its been interesting to watch journalist distro reviews over the decades. In the olden days it was all about the install. The difference between a good or bad distro was did the installer have a graphical image on boot, or text mode. No journalist commentary on OS features or actual usage, the sole quality of an entire OS was just the installer. According to the journalists no one ever does anything with linux that i…

Why do you consider switching to Debian unprofessional?
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