I would like to see Debian, Redhat, Slackware, Arch, Mandrake,
PCLINUXOS, and Ubuntu push each other in a positive competition
to be better than they currently are. I feel that every major Linux
distribution has strong pros and probably, hard to say this, some major
cons. Slackware does just works it seems and is very stable. I use
debian and it just works too. Ubuntu is something my brother used for
a long time and he switched to Debian because he got burned when a
major app he had learned, considerable effort I might add, got
abandoned and the replacement was nothing like it. When the
replacement is nothing like the predecessor, your effort to learn the
predecessor is effort wasted. I've heard that the major decision maker
in Ubuntu world can and does make arbitrary decisions and that one of
these decisions to drop a package my brother had learned is what burned
my brother. Granted, I cannot recollect the specifics and it was a
while ago. It would be ideal if there was perhaps one Linux
distribution that everyone in the Linux community worked on, but this
is not the case. And maybe this is a good thing that there are
multiple major Linux distributions. I didn't start this thread to
offend, I started it to learn. Please, for anyone who replies to this
treat it as an opportunity to learn and not to flame or become
defensive. Flame war bad, discussion good ;-)
I love Linux and have been loving it since at least 1998. Long live
the penguin. My hope is that Linux's hardware support improves so
that Linux can stay relevant. Winmodem bad, windows only video
card bad. Proprietary Linux drivers, not the greatest. Really AMD,
NVIDIA. and Intel... if your video hardware is open and impressive
there will be more as opposed to less demand for it and I'm certain
you can restrict the production of it without hiding the design.
You don't have to make proprietary hardware to make a profit, the
average joe blow doesn't own a fab and cannot make video hardware
as fabs are not cheap. Average Joe doesn't have a billion dollars
to put down on a chip fabrication factory where I don't see that
getting any cheaper anytime soon.
-- Michael C. Robinson
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