On Mar 15, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Andy Davies wrote:
> Unfortunately that's exactly how I feel about 'nix distro's - OK
> they're
> [mostly] free but there's just too many too often.
There are several main distros, and out of those, only 3 real
'flavors': Red Hat, Debian and SuSE. And the differences among those
are relatively small, mainly in the support tools offered and the
packaging system for software distribution.
The frequent updates is actually not a big deal. Most of the time
you don't notice a difference from one release to the next; it's
nothing like moving from Win2K to XP to Vista or anything like that.
The guts don't really change significantly.
But even if you feel that the updates are too often to handle,
that's not the issue I was talking about. The reason for the updates
is taking existing things and making them work better. It most
certainly is *not* to chuck perfectly good stuff in favor or
something different solely to extract money from your wallet.
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