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Re: An easy-to-use / install distro?

  • Subject: Re: An easy-to-use / install distro?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:32:46 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / ISBE, Manchester University / ITS / Netscape / MCC
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__/ [ [H]omer ] on Tuesday 26 September 2006 13:27 \__

> Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>> Hadron Quark wrote:
>> 
>>> ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> < snip >
>> 
>>>> There are over 350 active distros now. None is 'best' or we would not
>>>> need the other 300+. I use Gentoo - on my mini-itx. I use kubuntu on my
>>>> desktop
>>> "we" dont need the other 300. The others are mostly there as testimony
>>> to "it can be done".
> 
> Let's put it this way; *somebody's* using them, otherwise they wouldn't
> exist, and for as long as there's even one person using a distro, it's
> viable. Unlike proprietary commercial software, FOSS doesn't need target
> sales figures.
> 
> Oh yes, there are commercial Linux *vendors*, that *do* have sales
> targets, but then the majority of the 400+ distros are *not* commercial.
> 
> The underlying FOSS components that make (and can be modified to
> re-make) a distro do not have a financial need to meet a distribution
> target, since they are not finance dependent ... they are "people
> dependent".
> 
>> Who is "we"?
>> You, flatfish, billwg, Erik F and DFS?
> 
> Hardon thinks he speaks for everyone; in reality he doesn't even speak
> <snip />

It sure looks like it. *grin*

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