On 4-Jan-99 at 14:53, Douglas Wagner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I know i'm going to get flamed to death on this one (puts on the flame
> retardent suit) but frankly IMHO it really doesn't matter what flavor of
> LINUX you use. All of them have some type of X-win, the interface is the
> same to all of them, and the kernel should be the most recent version (only
> one set of source). Pico, VI and Emacs will still be there, Pine will
> still be the mail reader of choice, gcc and g++ will still rock on any of
> those systems and none of it will crash unless you really really really
> try...so imho, nope..it doesn't matter. The only difference you get is the
> number of applications and the type of installations and a few different
> utilities between the versions. Other than those little extras....you
> could ship 1 version of Linux.
There is also the difference in boot script styles, some (like redhat)
use a SYS Vish style, while others (like slackware) use BSD. Also,
the distributions vary slightly in their choices for common paths... for
example, /usr/lib/terminfo vs. usr/share/terminfo, etc. Also keep in
mind that some distributions use different versions of system (or other)
libraries, and this can be an initial source of headaches WRT
application compatibility. Still, these should not affect how well
linux runs on the inspirons, as the most important factor is the kernel
itself, and next in line (IMHO) is the X server, whether it's XBF, newer
XFree86's, MetroX, or XInside.
Brian
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