Oh Boy....

[david]

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:18 +0100, Keith Powell wrote:
> 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
> 
I was comparing them more from the sheer usability point of view.
I've tried Suse 9.2 and Mandrake 10.2 and I have to say that I've really
gone off rpm based distros. Ubuntu is just SO slick by comparison.
I used to think that distro's that offered half a dozen window managers
were quite cool but Ubuntu has relieved me of that opinion.

But yes, I see your point about 18 months being a long time in Linux.


nux