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Published by Esteban Glas on September 13th, 2007 | This post lacks all category except for: Linux

For the past couple of months I have been a happy Ubuntu user. I run it on 2 PCs, a clone desktop (AMD processor) and on a ThinkPad R50e. Both installs went smoothly and I still have to face an unrecoverable crash on either computer. I’ve installed and uninstalled over 80 different packages, ranging from Apache (1.3 and 2) to eye-candy desktop management (like Beryl). Everything went pristine.

Thus, why on earth would I want to change what I’ve declared as the best OS I ever laid hands on? Sheer curiosity.

I have tried Mandrake (wasn’t called Mandriva yet), SuSE and Red Hat, but that was some time ago already, thus I’m eager to see what has changed and what are the different goodies that are shipped with every one. Besides I also want to take Solaris for a ride, it has intrigued me for quite a long time (ever since it was made open source).

Yet I must say that deleting a perfectly good OS is not as easy as one might think.  That was a problem I didn’t have to face when I first installed Ubuntu.

But before killing the Ubuntu on the R50e (the desktop is far too tweaked as a file and webserver for me to delete it)  I want to run some benchmarks against another R50e with a different OS installed (wink, wink).

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