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Dapper \Dap”per\, a. [OE. daper; prob. fr. D. dapper brave,
valiant; akin to G. tapfer brave, OHG. taphar heavy, weighty,
OSlav. dobr[u^] good, Russ. dobrui. Cf. {Deft}.]
Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or
appearance; lively.
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The first time I fired-up Linux, it was Red Hat 7. Both Linux and I have come a long way since then. I’ve been faithful to Red Hat for some time now.

• Red Hat 7
• Red Hat 8
• Red Hat 9
• Fedora Core 1
• Fedora Core 2
• Fedora Core 3
• Fedora Core 4
• Fedora Core 5
• Other CentOS and RHEL versions for my servers

I always knew that RH and FC were the right distros for me. I aways came back after testing others. Well, that has changed.

Ubuntu has won me over. What do I like about it?

• One disk installs for desktop or server.
• Server and desktop that share a common base. (FC becomes RHEL - not the same)
• Clean Gnome desktop.
• Polished feel.
• 5 year support on the LTS.
• Many other small things.

I’ll keep-up on CentOS and Red Hat because I’ll need to know them when working in other environments. I may even go back to them after checking out RHEL 5. I really dig Red Hat and think they are one of the best Open Source companies out there. I just feel that Ubuntu gives me more of what I want right now. Somehow, I can’t help felling disloyal :)