Best Alternative Operating System To Ubuntu?

[Avi]

Doug wrote:
> you can't get Thunderbird or Firefox, but only cheap imitations,
> because of some political or ideological cant from the devs. (I'll
> keep the progs and icons I'm used to, thanx.)

Cheap imitations? It's the same code with different names and pictures.
Iceweasel is launchable as 'firefox' by default and it's not difficult
to do same for Icedove.

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Avi