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I have been a devout Gentoo fan for the last two or three years. I have used it personally on my laptop as well as on nearly every server I manage. While I loved the ability to tweak every aspect of the software I was using, I dreaded the unexpected reinstall because a laptop hard drive went bad. It could literally take three days to bring my laptop back to the way I wanted it. I recently gave Ubuntu a shot and was really impressed. Coming from an RPM based backend in the beginning, I really took to the way Ubuntu's Synaptic package management system worked. I also never liked the way Fedora required half a dozen CD's or a DVD to perform the install so I gave Ubuntu a try on the recommendation of a colleague.

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