On 1/25/07, Lindsay Druett <lindsay(a)wired.net.nz> wrote:
In saying that, there are people who are more comfortable with a different distro. That could be because they are restoring vintage computers, because they have a specialist requirement, or because some people are after a challenge of installing a harder distro, for example, Gentoo.
But at the end of the day, Linux is Linux...
Mmmm... debatable. After having tried a few different versions for various purposes I would say there's considerable variety ... much more so than among the various flavours of "windows" that you may come across. Software is a bit like buying a car. No one car suits everybody. All cars have their good points and bad points and you buy one according to the criteria (which includes $$, of course) that you decide ... or you may make an "emotional" decision! Most of you are old enough to remember the early 1980s (pre "IBM-PC") when there were choices (Apple / Commodore / Atari / ZX Spectrum etc), but the transfer of information from one computer to another was a real nightmare. That nightmare also existed in the "commercial" area. There's lots of stories I could tell about 4 generations (starting 1972) of a production monitoring system I worked with. Michael