> #2. Rock solid.  A very nice development environment especially
> with Cygwin installed.  You can develop both Windoze AND *ix
> stuff.  Heck you can even use XFree86 under Cygwin! (OK,
> I'm a RedHat fan in this case.)
>
I'm curious about that, how do you run XFree under WinXP?

> To the extent that the *standards that matter* are not cast aside,
> distro-specific layers are welcome. If your program won't work properly
> without them though (read: will only work with RedHat (and derivatives)),
> I consider that a serious liability - specially to the Linux community in
> general.
>
Linux lack standard and everyone wants their own system to be standard...
standard is all Linux need to beat Windows, isn't it?

Regards/
Jerome

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