FUD

[Brian Kelsay]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> Quoting Jason Clinton <me at jasonclinton.com>: 
>  
> 
>>Would you like a shield with your flaming sword, o' crusader? Get off 
>>the distro holy wars .... 
> 
>  
> Spreading FUD about a distribution you don't know anyting about is doing a 
> disservice to the list as well, I was just trying to clear that up.  I'm no 
> distribution crusader - anybody who's actually followed my posts knows that. 
>  
> Yeah, it's cool among a certain cap-worn-backward crowd to dis RedHat because 
> they're the most successful business distributing Linux, but it's stupid to 
> spread FUD when RedHat is actually a good solution for lots of users. 
>  
> If someone has a real gripe with RedHat, we can help them understand or fix it 
> - there's not much that you can't do in Linux using it as a base.  Just to 
> gripe that it's a bad distribution, especially if you're not current on using 
> it, is just as bad as what Microsoft does, and it only helps Microsoft, not 
> the list. 

So far Red Hat, Mandrake, Morphix (Debian), Freesco, IPCop, Slackware, 
and Knoppix (Debian) have all worked for me in one way or another.  I 
have been through the install routine a lot and have not really found a 
BEST distro.  I do like the stuff Red Hat is doing lately though.  If 
you don't like BlueCurve then you are probably a desktop tweaker and 
don't need any help from anybody.  I usually leave the desktop alone 
after install since it is usually covered by open apps anyway.  I think 
its good they are making the theming look alike between Gnome and KDE so 
that people can concentrate on the apps they use.

Brian