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Ah.. but Lindows is based on Debian, no? Same with Xandros. I resist having an opinion on these 2 distros, as -- unfortunately -- you can't download them. I've read about Click-N-Play, and it sounds like something helpful (tho expensive) to people who just want to get a cheap email/browser system from Walmart. I'd love to see something easier than Red Hat so I could get my wife to run it. For example, changing resolutions without "control +" or redefining resolutions and restarting X. Or have "users" completely sandboxed... almost like a vmware session but without the performance hit. U sers can install anything they want (using a GUI package manager) and have per-user apps install under that user's ~/bin dir, etc. Root can set this up (by hand), but not exactly user material. This I think is still a ways off.. -Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org] > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 3:25 PM > To: discuss at blu.org > Subject: Re: What's the best distribution? > > > All is true. > Different distributions tend to be popular in different segments. > Red Hat is the market leader. Some people refer to Linux 8.0 > when they > really mean Red Hat. Like any market leader their distro it broadly > targeted. > SuSE tends to be preferred by engineers. > Mandrake by new users. > Debian is popular with the technical people and those who are > very much > Open Source oriented. > Lindows is used by Wal Mart customers (I'll say no more). > -- > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> > Associate Director > Boston Linux and Unix user group > http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 > PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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