[Gllug] Fedora 11 gets it wrong

James Laver james.laver at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 10:48:13 UTC 2009


On 10 Jun 2009, at 11:46, John Hearns wrote:
>
> Let's stop the distro wars right here.
> The strenght of Open Source is that there is a multiplicity of
> alternmatives, and you can always take the code and fork your own
> version.
> So Linux is stronger in having multiple choices of distro - ranging
> from embedded distros, throug cut down distros using ulic and busybox,
> up through desktop-oriented distros to server distros.

And phone distros, for openmoko etc. (although i've yet to find one  
that doesn't suck, so I'm resorting to building my own).

> I personally am getting really sick and tired about the knee-jerk
> "Debian good" "Ubuntu - its the only choice really" attitude on this
> list.

Again, that's one viewpoint. There are also the 'redhat good','centos  
good' attitudes. This being the internet, everyone has an opinion.

--James
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