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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:58:41PM -0500, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: > On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 15:24:44 Jerry Feldman wrote: > > > > 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). > > These are not reasons for preferring one distribution over another. They are > arguments from authority. They're not arguments at all, just vague statements. Frankly, the best distro is tomsrtbt, and that should end the argument. Not that you can do a lot with it, but you can do more with it than with anything else that comes on (and boots off of) one floppy. Its motto, a true triumph of truth-in-advertising, is "The most GNU/Linux on 1 floppy disk." Nathan
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