On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:12:11AM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote: > That doesn't explain why other dists are used in production environments. It > doesn't explain why RedHat has such a huge market share. Or am I really > overestimating the capabilities of the majority of the admins?
Probably. More significant though, is marketing. Most of us here agree that Windows isn't the best OS around, but it's got the largest userbase because of marketing and because it's what comes preinstalled on most PCs. Is it much of a stretch to assume that Red Hat is the most-used Linux distro because of marketing and being the most-often-preinstalled distro on PCs that come with Linux? (Not an anti-RH flame, although I personally don't care for any rpm-based distro I've encountered, just a reminder that, in the modern world, marketing seems to be a more powerful force than technical merit.) -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]