Re: [Hampshire] Time for a new distribution

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>> I'd highly recommend Kubuntu.
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> Hmm thinking about it for a bit maybe it would be a good idea to find a
> distribution that is more standard linux like. What i mean is avoiding
> yast and
> other custom settings managers and using kde control centre instead.

Indeed, this factor of (K)ubuntu is one of the things that attracts me to
it. It doesn't need a lot of configuring, so it's an easy learning curve,
but if you want to do lots of fiddling it leaves you to go about it your
own way.

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>> I'm not sure if you're aware, but Iceweasel is simply a rebranded
>> version
>> of Firefox to avoid some trademark disputes that Debian ran into when
>> patching the Firefox code. If you count Firefox as a requirement in
>> selecting a distro, Iceweasel will fulfil this requirement.
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> Its liable to have to spoof as firefox though since there are plenty of
> badly
> coded sites out there that only check for IE or FF?

As far as I'm aware, It'll identify as Firefox (or at least, Gecko, the
Mozilla rendering engine) to any websites that check and be treated as
such, It's only logos and text on the UI that've been altered.

Mark