On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 14:09 -0500, M Harris wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:13, Russell Jones wrote: > > There are far more important criteria for choosing a distribution than > > how nicey-nicey people are. > This is very true ... > > ... and very wrong. > > At this point in time the openSUSE distro is "better" for several > technical > reasons than Ubuntu (I have objectively compared both and the > state-of-the-art definitely favors openSUSE at this point in time) however, > the Ubuntu "community" is bending over backwards to make "people" feel warm > and fuzzy all over to get them to consider switching over (yes to FOSS) from > M$ to Linux. "People" feel good about Ubuntu... is it the best distro? NO. > Is it the number (1) ONE distro... Yes. (you do the math)
It's not just the warm fuzzies, it's also in how the community creates scripts for packages of non-OSS stuff or even the dread multimedia stuff, or <gasp> Web-Cam stuff. Ubuntu is shooting for the easy to establish desktop and use desktop, the rest of us can take a page or two from their note-book. > Fred's point is very helpful, if you can get past your arrogance long > enough > to get your head (and heart) around it. > > > > > > -- > Kind regards, > > M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
