[Cumbria] re the RH SuSe 'discussion'

[Ken Hough]

Schwuk wrote:

>Stupid? Yes. Entertaining? Yes, unless is degenerates into a flamewar.
>Useful? Depends (see 'Entertaining?'). But to the
>(newbie|cluebie|luser|average person) they are simply pointless namecalling.
>
>In the context of promoting Linux, the flamewars are pointless, and scare
>people off.
>
>At the end of the day, Ken likes SuSE, I like Red Hat (as well as Mandrake,
>Gentoo, Knoppix, Debian, OpenBSD and others. Hell, I've even tried BeOS and
>QNX). I intend to try the SuSE CDs that Ken gave me, simply so I can develop
>my own opinion about it, but I don't believe it will become my 'distro of
>choice'. No bad thing. I certainly recommend Red Hat to people, but I don't
>expect them to use it. I don't expect Ken to convert simply because he has a
>set of CDs.
>--
>Schwuk
>  
>
Comes back to a point that I made previously  -- we tend to go with what 
we know. Shouldn't stop us exploring pros and cons, though.

Ken Hough