I'm sorry I don't ever remember bring up
open source policy in this discussion and your
quoted part of my message doesn't say anything
like that, and my other messages in this thread
don't.
I'm mearly trying to dispell the rumor that
redhat is the only easy to use linux, and the only
thing worth recommending to new users. It seems
many people are quick to decide that redhat is
what people should start on.
-Omar
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> Omar El-Domeiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Note to all Redhat people who might flame me.
> > I handed her one of the siglinux copies of Redhat.
> > And we have more than 10 times more redhat cd's for
> > siglinux than we do debian. Hope that makes
> > some redhat'ers happy.
> > So ha, I provided the avenue for more than one
> > distro. Maybe all of us distro patrons should
> > be more open minded.
>
> You know ... you might want to sit back and think about yourself for a minute.
> You seem to be the only one flaming people about distro choice, and that's
> after someone suggests redhat as a distro for a new user.
>
> Maybe these people were less knowledgable about linux than you were, and have
> found that redhat is a good place to start for a non-unix beginner. Was your
> computer delivered with a copy of Debian in the disk drive? Maybe one day
> it will be, but as for now .. you have to think about those who know nothing
> of unix, and are venturing into an area they don't understand anyhow. We want
> to keep them in that interested state, not scared off or frustrated with a
> lack of documentation or installation ease. I started on slackware, and god
> knows I'd never recommend that to anyone in there right mind. Too bad at the
> time there was no other real distribution.
>
> I have also heard many good things about SUSE ... and in time once its docs
> evolve a bit, I'll probably recommend that to users instead of redhat.
>
> But I'd slow down on YOUR high debian horse and try to think about some other
> more non-educated points of view before you go off spouting about open source
> and the other things that debian embraces.
>
> Have you ever stopped to think that maybe some people don't give a damn about
> the open source policy, and just want to run linux?
>
> :)
>
> Aaron
>
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