[Lilux-help] Distro is not as important as we all think

[Eric Dondelinger]

Hi,

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Patrick Kaell wrote:

> This is what I mean: People will get very emotional about distros. There
> will be no consensus. A comparison matrix (no matter what it looks like)
> will not be accepted by all readers on this list. It's like a religion ;-)

True. There's been way too many flamewars on this subject anyway.

> People only recommend their favorite distro.... Sadly but true. Maybe I
> am no exception.

Not true. I personnally don't use SuSE. I still recommend it for
newbies. Some people will be forced to use SuSE because they have
to run some proprietary packaged certified & supported only on
that distro (and perhaps only for a specific version of it).
I happen to have that last problem (with RedHat) at the office.

> What about Debian and SuSE users? They seem to be quiet, lately. Perhaps
> because of the fact, that if you *really* use a good distro, you will
> not need to participate in flame wars (excuse me: discussions ;-)

No, there's simply no point. Stand above such bullshit. But do
feel free to slam distros that really don't get it (such as Lindows
having all done always by root) ;-)

Greets Eric