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Re: Linux-for-education beta released

  • Subject: Re: Linux-for-education beta released
  • From: Kier <vallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:38:54 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <G8sMg.4$hH5.3@newsfe06.phx> <2223253.nLihN0RMu0@schestowitz.com> <87irjto4uq.fsf@geemail.com>
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  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1153401
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:40:13 +0200, Hadron Quark wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> __/ [ Au79 ] on Saturday 09 September 2006 06:19 \__
>>
>>> Tectonic - South Africa
>>> 
>>> By Staff Writer. OpenLab, a Linux distribution widely used in education
>>> environments, today released a beta of the forthcoming OpenLab 4 release.
>>> ...
>>> <http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1152>
>>
>> They'll face some 'competition' from other similar distribution, Edubuntu
>> included. But it's good to have choice because it promotes better value and
>> peer-inspiration.
> 
> Whats so special about this release/distro that warrants people working
> on it, over, say, working on a proven "out there" distro like Suse,
> redhat or Ubuntu?

A couple of years ago, Ubuntu itself barely existed.

> 
> This distro thing is getting out of control. It is going to kill Linux.

So, competition is okay, unless it's in Linux. Right.

Since you seem to know so much, why don't you try persuading the
developers of all those distros you so despise to drop what they're doing
and work for SUSE or Red Hat?

-- 
Kier


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