From mhouston@mh01.demon.co.uk Fri Mar 27 22:56:21 1998 From: mhouston@mh01.demon.co.uk To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: No Linux on Merced Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 23:56:21 +0100 Message-ID: <6fhaql$rpa$1@Galois.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <[S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: No Linux on Merced> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0665707084294499182==" --===============0665707084294499182== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Michael Lankton wrote: > Dist wars have been occuring and will continue to occur as long as there > are multiple dists to choose from. This is human nature, and it > doesn't matter whether it's distributions, window managers or chunky vs. > smooth peanut butter. I have used three distributions, and I have my > opinions. I can tell you why I think brand x sucks and why I use brand > y, but it doesn't really matter. The more people using linux the > better, and frankly having several quality distributions available > benefits us all. >=20 The fact that there are at least 3 main and several other spin-off Linux distributions is very healthy. 1. It encourages friendley competition to make your next distribution that bit better than the other guys. This leapfrogging has made the usability of Linux for non Unix gurus improve out of all recognition in the past 3 years. 2. It shows people that Linux is different in that the development model does encourage genuine choice.. I think it is great that Linux has two great (and affordable) Office Suites, not to mention the big choice of databases and the mountain of other stuff. What a contrast to the Windows world were everything is distorted towards MS Office. Yes there are shelves full of other products for Windows, but that will come for Linux. The fact that by some measures we are more numerous than Mac users now should not be lost on the big commercial software vendors forever. I am happy that there is a choice of distributions and want it to continue. That is why I sell both Caldera OpenLinux and Suse, they are both great products but each has different strengths so you would be poorer if you had to make an arbitrary choice between them. -- mhouston(a)mh01.demon.co.uk Linux/Unix Consultant=20 A Storm is coming.... If I had any Microsoft Stock And its name is Linux! I would sell it now.... http://www.deluxe-tech.co.uk> Moble: 07970 850961 -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============0665707084294499182==--