[Wolves] Promoting Linux

[Matthew Revell]

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 13:48, alexgay@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

> >I hadn't really understood this until I tried installing Gentoo and
> >Debian :) If you stick with RedHat et al, I reckon installation's often
> >easier than Windows ... and certainly prettier :)
> Definatly prettier, if you use a big commersial(sp?)  distro.  Debian setup definatly doesn't pass the 'mom test', but than doesn't mean there can't be a flavour for each market segment.  Most may stay with the easy install stuff, but a large enough percentage of users would want the flexibility offered by some of the other distros, and would use these once they had moved beyond the basics.

Yeah, and as has been mentioned previously in this thread, freedom of
choice is one of Linux's greatest strengths. Hooray for Linux :)