Steve Holdoway wrote:
Does it *really* make that much of a difference??? I mean practically. They all
provide you with a linux platform for you to play on ( or, if you're that way
inclined, to be paid to play on... I didn't say that out load did I? ). I see
the use of a KDE or Gnome gui as being a far bigger difference.
See, i said it was flamebait. :)
Does it make that much of a difference? For a general purpose DB/web
etc server, not really. As long as the community/company keep updating
or backporting fixes and the documentation is up to scratch, then no.
Desktops or embedded machines are a whole `nother ball of wax. I've
just picked up an Acer Aspire One. It's running a flavour of Fedora.
It's taken me hours of messing about to make the wireless connection
reliable, the RJ45 ethernet connection fixed IP, install gnome, wine,
kernel modules for usb/serial converters, nfs, ... that should have been
there but were missing and more. I still haven't figured out what keeps
clobbering /etc/hosts, it's probably that stupid network manager thing.
I wish _that_ came with ubuntu installed.
Rex
