Il giorno ven, 27/04/2007 alle 14.39 +0200, Marcus Meissner ha scritto:
This is just a bit of a strawman I guess.
You guess wrong, but that's OK. It's some time I'm working at that.
Last time I compared distros it was Red Hat 9 vs. SUSE 9. The only thing Red Hat got better is graphic appearance. SUSE 9 got better hardware recognition, more programs and more programs that have no missing functionality. I got in both distros file managers, but Konqueror was by far better than Nautilus.
The difference is the cleanliness. I don't like Red Hat myself, but without a doubt, its consistency is amazing.
"Cleanliness" ... Both KDE and GNOME is OpenSource software.
Now if you would discuss cleanliness in regards to having no closed source software on the distribution, I could understand it, but you do seperate KDE and GNOME for no real good reason.
I'm not an ideologist, if a closed source application is well done and works, I've no problem to use it or to accept it in the distribution. One of the advantages of SuSE is that you already find flash, acroread and some other applications already on media. Cleanliness, for me, means not seeing inconsistent choices of apps, evidently out of places windows, dialogs, applets and so on. I never said it has to have a higher priority than functionalities, but when there are alternatives there's no reason to do a mix. And for basic functionalities there are various alternatives. Regards, Alberto --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org