Hello Muli. > I, on the other hand, think it's a foolish idea.
And what does it say about the idea's originator? ;) > The essence of Linux > is not "my distribution is better than yours", or "my desktop looks > prettier". I might agree on that one. > The essence of Linux is the code, and the things you can do > with it. Broadly speking, I agree with that one too. > It's the mechanisms, the standards, the code, not the policy > - this distribution makes everything convenient for users, and that > one compiles everything from scratch. Who cares? I do. I care what "paranoid mode" means during the installation. I care how the non-Linux partitions are going to be handled. I care about if the packages are consistent. I care if I'm going to need to run after a zillion RPMs every time I want to upgrade something, because it needs to be upgraded. I care if the C compiler I get with the distribution is buggy (as with Mandrake 7.0). > No matter which distribution I run, they all do the same things. That's where we strictly disagree. Even you, as a kernel hacker, wants to know what kernel you get in the package, don't you? > I > couldn't care less which distribution is "better", because which > distribution I run has infinitesimal bearing on the things I do with > it. And here we have the ultimate point: What YOU do with it. Others keep Linux as a tool, not as the thing itself. And for people like me, setting up the system, even if it's fun, is not something that we want to spend too much time on. Meaning: I want my system as I like it from the beginning. A wise choice of distro might help. > Therefore, the difference between RH and Mandrake, or Suse and > Debian, are of no importance to me. I'd much rather hear about the new > technologies in RH 8.0, than about the difference between its desktop > theme and mandrake's desktop them, which the discussion you're > proposing will ultimately degrade into. Aha! So we agree perfectly. That's exactly what I want. I couldn't care less about the desktop theme either. But I think that you'll want to know about a buggy compiler no less than me. And if we don't want to discuss desktop themes, well there are plently of other things we've agreed not to waste time on (vi/emacs comes to my mind). Still a foolish idea? Eli > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
