Eric Auer wrote:
Well, I dont see most distributions, only those that FED-X delivers, which is eight or so, plus a couple of newer releases. There is an effort among the distros to distinguish themselves and find a market, some going for niche.Hi, I disagree. Most Linux distributions nowadays adhere to common standards
Some, like Corel, are hated by Linux lovers, but did do a better job at making an interface and install that windoz idiots could cope with. BSD, on the other hand, beloved by hackers is incredibly clunky.
The latest REDHAT is somewhere inbetween, comes with Mozilla, but it dont have midnight commander, and leaves you in the terminal with just the Bash
commands, which aint exactly intuitive to linux newbies.
Some of them partition the drive with one for the kernel, and several others for /home /usr, whatever. Others want it all on one partition. Some will let you bypass the logon password if you have a single user system, others dont
consider that and require either a five or a six letter choice.
I dont see how you can mandate common standards without limiting their power to innovate. DRDOS & FREEDOS are much more likely to do the same thing with the same dos app and dont ask users to 'compile' apps for their 'kernel'. But then the development path is slowed down; which means however that dos does not adopt every new trinket that comes out, and thus lacks a lot of the interface complexity that contributes to the notorious steep learning curve of Linux.
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