On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:55:58 -0800, Tim Smith wrote:
> In article <3461148.LN7qVOYf2H@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Tim lied to you by the way. I'm against the Ubuntu bashers there and
>> I get told off for just daring to mentioned Ubuntu.
>
> Too bad I didn't say you were for the Ubuntu bashers. What I said was
> that you bitch about people who say "Ubuntu" when saying something that
> would work with other distros. For example, if someone posts an
> article titled "10 neat Ubuntu tips" and they would also work on Fedora
> and SUSE, there's a good chance you'll give them a little lecture on
> how they should not say Ubunutu when they could have said Linux.
Well, if they mean 'this or that works on Ubuntu and may also work on
Fedora and SUSE', substituting 'Linux' for 'Ubuntu' would be silly, since
the tips might very well not work on all distros.
Once, Red Hat was virtually synonymous with Linux in the general public
mind. Now it's Ubuntu. What's the big deal? Some day it might be another
distro. They're all Linux. Those in the the know don't need telling, and
those not in the know don't care anyway, so where's the big hoo-hah?
To many outside the UK, Manchester United *is* football (proper football,
I mean, what some people call soccer). Everyone else knows there are other
clubs. Man U is just the most successful brand at the moment. If they
don't stay on top, there'll be another to take theior place, but it'll all
still be the same game. It's pretty much the same with distros, IMO.
--
Kier
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