Hi TongMaster,
TongMaster wrote:
The proposition that being experienced or not experience in Linux has linkage
You can't hold that belief and be experienced in Linux at the same time.
to belief or advocacy for one Linux distro or the other is certainly a proposition that is
riddled with fallacies.
Whilst it is true that some advocates of a Linux Distro are experienced Linux
users not all avid Linux Distro advocates are Linux users with Linux experience.
Many are in there to advance their business, to win fame, to gain profit, or even just to
take up a cause that they can't somewhere else. Whilst I'm not suggesting that their
causes for becoming avid Linux Distro advocates are mutually exclusive of
Linux experiences, many avid Linux Distro advocates are not Linux experienced
at all.
On another matter, many experienced Linux users who are extremely successful
and who earn their living in the exercise of their knowledge and the practice of their
skills are not advocates of any Linux Distro. By extremely succesful I mean materially
successful with a some MEGA $$$ in their name, because they are professionals
who simply want to get things done and not be bothered by which Linux is better
or worse. They are extremely successful professionals because they are inclusive
and do not exclude any and all other Distros or even OS in the practice of their
professions. Oh, BTW, they are called professionals because they are inclusive
and are not bothered by any kind of Distro when asked to get things done.
Some Linux distro's are pure crack and ought to never be used.
I take exception to this for reasons I set out in the next paragraphs.
I will use any distro if it suits the job. As a matter of record, I use NCR TowersSome are just as un-manageable as Windows and Solaris *cough*Redhat*cough*. Others adhere to sane package management policies that allow sysadmin's to have a beer after work and not dread being called early for some nonsense.
(Whilst working for NCR, I did all phases of development including programming
for Finance Department of a Foreign Country),ATT Unix, Fujitsu Mainframes Unix
( Whilst working for Fujitsu, I did device drivers for MTL systems), Solaries,
Fujitsu MidSize UNIX and I will not hesitate to use other OS like MSWindows
and IBM systems (I started my computing career as Assembler, Fortran, and Cobol
Programmer in 1969) and without making value judgements as I realise the
usefulness for using these systems, without these other systems, many systems in
this earth at the present moment at least will be lame and incomplete.
I generally managed to use any Linux Distro to suit my intended installation.
The most common installation I have are Linux-Kernel-Bridge-Firewall
( a few hundreds; using FW-TK in the past and with it the Kernel has to be
always re-compiled due to its nature and specs on top of
the prescribed Security Policies). FW-TK which stands for FireWall ToolKit,
as you are probably aware of, was developed by TIS and the same company that
developed Gaunlet, a heavy duty Firewall popularly marketed on Soralies
Platform at that time.
BTW, what do you do for a living ?
When one inspects that installation many will not even be able to identity what
Distro I have started with, in which case any Linux Distro suits my objectives.
For this installation, I have used distros such as Yggdrasill, Slackware, Mandrake,
RedHat, and now Fedora. After each working day, I found plenty of time to drink
beer and wine with family and friends, without in "dread being called early for
some nonsense".
As you can see, I'm no advocate of any Linux Distro. I like them all would not
hesitate to promote them.
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I'm yet to encounter any opinions in SLUG that came from anywhere other than experience so I would not begin to doubt their sincerity, regardless of what distro they promoted or what crack it may seem they were smoking.
Your're probably right, but how else ?
And I'm just pleased I drink beer and wine, and not smoking tobacco or crack.
Have a good night.
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