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It's interesting too that following the link to the Yahoo story, the page is no longer available...<BR>
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Taking a quick look at the Zorin website it appears that they are pressing for "donations" to support their project. I especially find it interesting that the auothor(s) of the website state that Zorin is based on the most popular version of Linux in the world (Ubuntu). If they are a hack of the "most popular" version of Linux in the world (that is free-of-charge) then why do they exist at all? As if Ubuntu wasn't easy enough already? <BR>
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Personally I've found PCLinuxOS to be a great choice for an "easy" version of Linux to introduce users to (it seems to run on most anything I put it on)...that and plain old Ubuntu. More savvy PC users I trend toward Fedora or even SuSE. <BR>
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I didn't get the chance to read the article from Yahoo...but I would bet that they wrote that article in M$ Word for which they are a daily driver at work and home. <BR>
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H A P P Y N E W Y E A R A L L ! ! ! <BR>
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Rich in Lilburn<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
<B>From</B>: James Sumners <<A HREF="mailto:James%20Sumners%20%3cjames.sumners@gmail.com%3e">james.sumners@gmail.com</A>><BR>
<B>Reply-to</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale@ale.org><BR>
<B>To</B>: <A HREF="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</A>, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<A HREF="mailto:Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20%3cale@ale.org%3e">ale@ale.org</A>><BR>
<B>Subject</B>: Re: [ale] Zorin?<BR>
<B>Date</B>: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:38:56 -0500<BR>
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I believe the saying is "there's a sucker born every minute." It looks
like one of them writes for Yahoo!.
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Cartwright <<A HREF="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</A>> wrote:
> a Ubuntu-based distro that charges?
>
> <A HREF="http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20101231/tc_pcworld">http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20101231/tc_pcworld</A>
> /5reasonstotryzorinoslinux
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> 5.
> As always in the Linux world, you can take the free Zorin OS for a test
> drive without committing to it until you're ready. The Zorin OS 4 Core
> release is available for free download from the project's site.
> Alternatively, Zorin OS 4 Gaming and Multimedia releases each cost 10
> euros, while Zorin OS 4 Ultimate is 15 euros from the project's store.
> So many users come to Linux from the Windows world, it makes a great
> deal of sense to offer them a little familiarity to help ease the
> transition. If that sounds like something your business could benefit
> from, why not give Zorin OS a try?
>
> looking at the "premium" apps that you paid extra for, seems like many
> of these are standard gnome apps that are LEFT OUT of their default
> download...
>
> <A HREF="http://zorin-os.webs.com/premiumpackagelist.htm">http://zorin-os.webs.com/premiumpackagelist.htm</A>
> Amarok - music player
> Audacity - music editor
> Banshee - music player
> Brasero - image burner
> VLC - media player
> xine - video player
>
> F-Spot - photo manager
> GIMP - image editor
> Inkscape - vector image editor and creator
> OpenOffice.org Drawing - image creator
> Scribus - document editor
>
> --
> Paul Cartwright
> Registered Linux user # 367800
> Registered Ubuntu User #12459
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