mark adrian bell wrote: <snip>
The reason that I run Ubuntu (actually Xubuntu) now is that it has a quick release cycle and it sets everything up for me. I can still modify the system to work just how I like it, but with Ubuntu I solve problems when I want to, usually not because I have to because something doesn't work. And when I do hit a problem, documentation is really easy to find on the net.
<snip> This is an important point - open source does provide an opportunity for wide input to enhancements, bugs, work arounds. The philosophy behind closed source applications still seems to put the onus on customers to prove, to the vendor, who may have or may not have been aware of a bug or a problem or enhancement - that there is one. No doubt charging the customer for the "development" of the enhancement. In fact I recall some [possibly only proposed] legislation a little while back regarding the reporting of security holes. Knoppix is a Debian/KDE distribution ...and from Wikipedia:
Gnoppix was originally built around its own customised Live CD environment; the last editions, however, were a rebranded and customised version of Ubuntu.[citation needed
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnoppix> The package repository concept also has quite useful application for schools in education. Marghanita -- Marghanita da Cruz http://www.ramin.com.au/linux Phone: (+61)0414 869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
