[ale] Zorin?

[Richard Faulkner]

It's interesting too that following the link to the Yahoo story, the
page is no longer available...

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?  

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.  

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.  

H A P P Y   N E W   Y E A R   A L L ! ! ! 

Rich in Lilburn


-----Original Message-----
From: James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: ale at pcartwright.com, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] Zorin?
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:38:56 -0500


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 <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> a Ubuntu-based distro that charges?
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20101231/tc_pcworld
> /5reasonstotryzorinoslinux
>
>
> 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...
>
> http://zorin-os.webs.com/premiumpackagelist.htm
> 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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