> > As long as there are plenty of distros around, and I expect there always > > will be, the demise of any one hardly matters in the big picture.
> Putting your obvious bias aside No bias there. I didn't even name a distro. Some ripples may be created if any one of red hat, suse, debian disappeared, but it would hardly be the end of linux. Shrug shoulders, pick new distro. Besides, Novell may yet run SUSE into the ground, although so far, they've been smart enough not to antagonise too many of their users while gaining some new ones too. With the 10.1 release some more major changes in direction are being undertaken, and I haven't yet made up my mind whether they're overall positive. Should, hypothetically speaking, Novell decide to make SUSE into a gnome-only .net-required monster, I'll be looking for something better. I have hopes Novell won't be so stupid, but no guarantee. As business seems to be wanting all of gnome.not oops gnome.net they can get, I might be looking soon. But Novell's direction is still speculation, and not all the hype on the lists is true. I'm pretty relaxed. Plenty of options... I did ask a question about Debian though you could have responded too... ;) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
