[plug] Controversial comparison of distros?

[Derek Fountain]

> Just in case the Linmag Distro Day article wasn't controversial enough --
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/49967/
>
> Can't say I agree with his reasoning. Derek and the SuSE guys are going to
> laugh at this piece, though (either that or get mad).

The days when I got mad at drivel like this are long gone.

The guy is clearly a debian hacker who knows what he's doing. I love it: "this 
is a simple matter of adding 'deb http://marillat.free.fr stable main' to 
/etc/apt/sources.list, then executing the following..." Simple! Ha! Hacking 
at /etc files before issuing command lines is not simple. You need to know 
what you are doing. But give it 10/10 anyway.

FWIW, I upgraded MPlayer on my SuSE box some time ago, using the exact 
packages he describes. I went and downloaded them from the site mentioned, 
then used YaST (not YOU) to install them. Took 1 minute plus the downloading 
time, and worked flawlessly. I didn't have to hack any /etc files or use the 
command line, but call it 6/10.

In order to be objective in these sorts of comparisons you need people who 
know and understand the distros and the tools they provide. That is just 
about unheard of, so I never read them.

-- 
> eatapple
core dump

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