On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:16 PM, drew wymore <[email protected]> wrote: > I've never really understood the distro smackdowns honestly. I think the one > thing that irks me most is the long held and I believe false idea that > certain distros support certain hardware while others don't. Given that > hardware support is a kernel thing, 3rd party modules like > madwifi/nvidia/ati not withstanding. I do believe redhat does incorporate > some non-mainline kernel bits that do support certain features not found in > other distros but they release patches that would allow anyone to add $x > support.
I think there's plenty to differentiate distros, and as you say, it's generally not hardware support. Freedom, distance from upstream, community, frequency of release, and stability are a few of the real differences, IMO. -- Dan Young _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
