COMPARING DISTRO info

[Jonathan Hutchins]

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From: <crash3m at comcast.net>

> > I ran across this series of articles this morning.  I
> > seem to remember that someone was looking for this
> > exact kind of comparison.

> > http://www.extremetech.com/category2/1,3971,540430,00.asp

Yeah, looking for shoot-offs between Mandrake 9.0 and RedHat 8.0,
particularly as RH8 is being touted as the
"ready-for-the-average-user-desktop" release.  Does M9 target the same
market, and if so, which is a better release for the non-coding "average"
user?
I don't think this really answers those questions, but it looks like a good
series.

> I must have missed that email...  There is a great site for checking
> out distro's.  Its probably not nearly as in depth as the article might
> be but it does cover plenty of distro's.
> http://www.distrowatch.com
> Theyt ell of past releases, whether or not there are free downloads,
> default desktops, package management system, office suites,
> architecture suport, FS types, multilingual, package versions...

Lots of hard info, but no qualitative evaluations.  Moderately useful.