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Jim, <BR>
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Unity is what was really throwing me and then heightened commercialization in the latest offering. I still run 11.04 on all of my systems but have lately started looking at SolusOS as a potential replacement. I have a liking for Gnome2 (and Debian) so am starting to lean that direction and away from Ubuntu myself. <BR>
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BTW> I'm not using ATI because of support concerns. Have been using Nvidia with good success but know that may (or may not) continue considering the finger that Linus gave Nvidia this past year. Canonical's commercialization is fine and good - not knocking it; I just don't want it in my distro. Wishing Canonical all the best...<BR>
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SolusOS is a featured distro in the latest LXF and can be found at: <A HREF="http://solusos.com/">http://solusos.com/</A><BR>
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They also have just announced a new mirror at Georgia Tech. <BR>
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Cheers........<BR>
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On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 10:49 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
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There *was* a way out! It turned out I couldn't boot from the CD/DVD
drive because the DVD there was corrupt. I managed to update the
installation of Ubuntu 12.10 using a new disk. But there are still
severe issues with the Catalyst driver. Ubuntu had to know that they
were stranding a huge number of users with ATI cards by using this
version of X. They did it anyway. This may be the last straw in my
relationship with them.
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