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From: jonathan at nuclearelephant.com (Jonathan A. Zdziarski) Subject: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 14:11, Tim Groninga wrote: > Got the same f-you-gram today - already figuring out what distro to > fall back to but 99% of my experience has been on Redhat. No time to > try them all....so FreeBSD/SuSE/Mandrake - what are your opinions of > each? Flexiblity, ease of use, ease of migration, security etc. I would love to see the open source community pull together and create a better "user-friendly" Linux distribution to replace RedHat. So far all of the alternatives I've looked at, while not bad, are quite frankly not impressive enough to capture any desktop user market space away from Microsoft...which is what I feel is the most important contribution RedHat made to Linux prior to turning into a bunch of selfish blood-sucking misers. To answer your question: Debian: 8 CDs of useless or outdated software, 2.2 kernel install, poorly designed install tool Slackware: What version are we at? Mandrake: Welcome n00b. Lindows: su? we don't need no stinking su. FreeLSD: Uh, how did this make it into the mix? SuSe: the most promising, which is why they'll probably be next to screw the Linux community. Not sure if I can handle them discontinuing it for a SECOND time. <rant> I'm a strong supporter of open-source, free software...but wtf good is the GPL if the cycle always ends in the open-source, free software community being screwed? </rant>
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