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on Wednesday March 05 2014, @11:30PM
from the no-need-to-join-the-microsoft-collective dept.
from the no-need-to-join-the-microsoft-collective dept.
resignator writes:
"'Arm yourself with the information needed before telling someone to install such and such distro because it's great,' warned blogger Ken Starks in his recent FOSS Force post. 'It might be great for you, but maybe not so much with my hardware choices.'
What considerations do SoylentNews readers have when recommending an OS? What OS do you recommend the most or least? How far would you go to 'tailor' a Linux distro to a potential adopter before recommending something that will work out of the box but lack non-essential features?"
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(Score: 1) by kbahey on Thursday March 06 2014, @01:27AM
If you use Firefox, use the ESR (Extended Support Release) builds. They have support of up to 51 weeks, and change far less often then the frequent builds Mozilla pushes through other channels.
Here is how I installed it on Ubuntu, should be pretty much the same for Debian: How to install Firefox ESR on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit [baheyeldin.com]
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