The Five Best Desktop Linux Distributions

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 28, 2011

[ Thanks to sjvn for this link. ]

While I wasn’t there from the very start of Linux. I
was an early adopter. Even before Linux, though, I was a Unix
desktop user ranging from the early character interfaces such as
the Bourne shell to graphic Unix desktops such as SCO’s Open
Desktop—better known back in the day as Open
Deathtrap—and Solaris’s Looking Glass.

“In the last twenty years I’ve used almost every significant
Linux desktop out there, and was the editor-in-chief for many years
of Desktop Linux. In short, I know what I’m talking about.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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