Oh Boy....

[audriusb at homelan.lt]

Quoting Keith Powell <keith at keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk>:

There is no need for advocate: I am able to answer myself. I was working
   1) SuSE - this was my first Linux,
   2) RedHat - the ccompany, where I got a work was using this,
   3) Mandrake, Debian, Fedora and UBUNTU - I was looking for free distribution
      after RedHat became commercial.
I found that all of them have their strong and week features. Differences are
minor and are related to system management.
After I spent about 4 months I studying differences between RedHat and Debian
and don't want to waste a time studying Slackware packaging system, FreeBSD
porting system or Gentoo package management.
You are saying that Mandrake 9.2 better than UBUNTU. Excellent - use it. But it
is true from your standpoint only. Mandrake is clone of RedHat and both
distributions aren't free. I am respecting the "Author" law and shall not use
them.

Gediminas Bukauskas


> david wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 08:10 +0300, audriusb at homelan.lt wrote:
> >
> >>there are no excellent or bad Linuxes
> >
> >
> > I wouldn't be too sure about that.
> > You ever use Mandrake 9.2 ? Dreadful!
> > SuSE 9.0? Ugh!
> >
> > When I compare the experience I had with those two as compared to Ubuntu
> > I feel quite happy in saying some distro's are great and other just
> > suck.
> >
> > nux
>
> David,
>
> With respect, I don't think your comparisons are very fair.
>
> You are comparing the latest Ubuntu with versions of two other
> distributions which are at least 18 months old.
>
> Would it not have been fairer to have compared this distro with the
> latest Mandrake and SUSE ones? I am in no way either boosting these two
> distros or degrading Ubuntu, just feeling that the playing field is not
> very level.
>
> To mis-quote a well-known political saying, "Eighteen months is a long
> time in Linux!"
>
> Cheers
>
> Keith
>
>
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