On Sat, 11 May 2002 09:24:42 -0700 Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 11 May 2002 08:29 am,Collins wrote: > > On Sat, 11 May 2002 14:04:24 +0100 Dallam Wych > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 08:38:08AM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote: > > > > Why is Caldera, which offers a free download, *bad*, while > > > > Suse, which doesn't offer a free download, *good*? > > > > Just wondering... > > > > > > SuSE offers a ftp install, for free. > > > It is usually available about a month after release I believe. > > > > Neither is good or bad per se. As I've said before, there is no > > perfect linux distro, only various distros that are evolving > > towards usability. > > > > I happen to be a gentoo biggot and a minimalist (read: not a KDE > > or gnome user), but would I recommend that approach for a brand > > new refugee from Windoze? Probably not. A new user (IMO) could > > achieve equally good results with Caldera, RedHat, SuSE, or even > > Mandrake or ELX > <snip> > > I've been following this thread and, at the risk of turning it > totally out into astroland, I would tentatively suggest that anyone > that can get access to a new Mac running OS 10.1 (which is > essentially free BSD) loaded up with applications, and poke around > with it for a while. When KDE on Linux runs like the new Macs, the > Windoze refuge conversion problem will disappear. >
An excellent point. I'm sure the flames are on the way (proprietary offering - evil, etc., etc.), but I, for one, see no reason to exclude Apple products from the discussion. As for as I'm concerned linux is unix is xxxbsd, and all are not Windows. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.19+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
