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Personally I don't know what to think. I like SuSE, I like RedHat and next month I will also be trying out Debian. I don't think I am willing, at this time, to make any definite choice. They all have nice and irritating features. And I don't think there is any reason, at the moment, to switch from one to the other (except 'personal compatibility and taste' reasons).
I agree. I have mixed reactions to the 'competitive' attitude users have about the dists. I think most of the time, people prefer dists for personal reasons of taste, as opposed to reasons that are primarily of a logistic nature. I think some of this creates a hostile and divisive climate. I think S.u.S.E., RedHat ( especially now ), Debian, are all good distributions. The main thing that is needed is more common ground between distributions of Linux so as to merge with that larger world that has no vested interest in seeing Linux succeed, so that the growth can continue in a positive direction. I think, at the end of this we could have Linuxes with distinct personalities and flavours that retain their technical 'personality' while at the same time acknowledging those things that need to happen across the board to promote universal acceptance of Linux as a platform solution for a variety of services. I'll love it when the 'hacker' and 'wild man' image that still infests ( bad choice of words, sorry ) Linux--is traded in for one of even more increasing acceptance and respectability, not just for 'special interests' but for potentially everyone that wants to benefit from the technical superiorty (IMHO ) of inexpensive Unices for big companies and even single user workstations. -M - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>