Kubuntu 8.10 vs Mepis 7.9.94 vs Puppy 4.1.2

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 9, 2009

“I do prefer KDE, so I’m going to give that an honest look and
see if that warms me up to the Ubuntu brand. I’m pitting this
distro giant against Mepis which has been a fav of mine since
discovering Linux and is responsible for me falling for KDE. The
release I’m running is 7.9.94 which is the RC1 of 8.0. Not quite as
stable or developed so the advantage goes here to Kubuntu before we
even start. Puppy has been my light weight fav for a long time and
is an odd one out in this little comparison. But we’ll see how well
this little distro measures up. Since I’m running totally off of
live CD’s, Puppy actually gets an advantage as it runs totally in
RAM.”


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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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