> Personally I don't know what to think. I like SuSE, I like RedHat and next
> month I will also be trying out Debian. I don't think I am willing, at this
> time, to make any definite choice.
> They all have nice and irritating features.
> And I don't think there is any reason, at the moment, to switch from
> one to the other (except 'personal compatibility and taste' reasons).
I agree. I have mixed reactions to the 'competitive' attitude users have
about the dists. I think most of the time, people prefer dists for
personal reasons of taste, as opposed to reasons that are primarily of a
logistic nature. I think some of this creates a hostile and divisive
climate. I think S.u.S.E., RedHat ( especially now ), Debian, are all good
distributions. The main thing that is needed is more common ground
between distributions of Linux so as to
merge with that larger world that has no vested interest in seeing Linux
succeed, so that the growth can continue in a positive direction. I think,
at the end of this we could have Linuxes with distinct personalities and
flavours that retain their technical 'personality' while at the same time
acknowledging those things that need to happen across the board to promote
universal acceptance of Linux as a platform solution for a variety of
services. I'll love it when the 'hacker' and 'wild man' image that still
infests ( bad choice of words, sorry ) Linux--is traded in for one of even
more increasing acceptance and respectability, not just for 'special
interests' but for potentially everyone that wants to benefit from the
technical superiorty (IMHO ) of inexpensive Unices for big companies and
even single user workstations.
-M
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