I guess we had nothing better to do on a Linux User group but to start a Distro 
war in 2017.

Lets keep it civil there a few people possibly still in the hundreds who 
probably like me do not care to have this conversation and i think who ever 
does should take it off the list. This is a mailing list for linux and linux 
questions and events, This is not a popularity list and considering there are 
more linux distros out there then days in a year, i think which one is better 
is best left for individual users to decide.


> On Jan 12, 2017, at 10:19 AM, Jean Christophe André 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Le 2017-01-12 à 08:12, Leslie S Satenstein a écrit :
>> The January invitation was titled UBUNTU users.  The MLUG was not supposed 
>> to be a "Ubuntu only" group.
> 
> Do you actually mean you don't expect to see an invitation for a SUSE group — 
> or any other LUG — to go through this list?
> 
> This is a general “LUG(s) in Montréal” mailing list and this kind of emails 
> are perfectly acceptables.
> 
>> Yes, it is impolite, but then when the invitation is titled  "Ubuntu users" 
>> I guess that excludes others.
> 
> Yes it probably does, because this is probably the expected audience for the 
> meeting.
> 
> The subject was clear so you were well informed and free to just ignore the 
> message if you are not interested in this topic.
> 
> It still perfectly belongs to the “Montréal LUG” topic.
> 
>> I like to evalutate distributions. I have currently installed Chapeau Linux, 
>> Korora Linux, RFRemix (Russian Linux), SUSE, and Arch.
>> I did have Ubuntu and Debian. but I only have 5 disks, and I like to keep my 
>> distributions away from each other.
> 
> I'm just curious about the “5 disks”. Assuming 20 GB is enough to test a 
> single distro — and it usually is, unless you install a LOT of non distro 
> specific packages — a single 500 GB disk allow to test 25 distros. Assuming 
> you would optimize things with the use of virtualization, because testing 
> hardware support doesn't require a full installation (live testing is enough 
> for that), you could test even more distros on one single disk, not 
> mentioning opening a whole new world of networking experimentations. Testing 
> on 5 disks would mean they probably are old and slow disks and it would not 
> be the best way to evaluate modern distros.
> 
> Regards, J.C.
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