[plug] Controversial comparison of distros?

[sscott at iinet.net.au]

Debian lose because apt isnt standard. Nearly everyone uses RPM, and although 
people can rabbit on ad nauseum about how much better APT is, it doesnt matter.

I do like Mandrake however. urpmi is pretty cool, and gets most stuff right. 

In fact, Mandrake with urpmi setup for the install CDs, contrib, cooker, and 
PLF is about the easiest install/upgrade experience Ive had to date. 

I gave up on the RHN as just about every time I tried to use it the servers 
were full. Besides, being primarily a gnome based distro, I lost interest 
totally. 

Does anyone use slackware anymore? I guess if you've just finally given up on 
*BSD and are finally migrating to linux it may hold some appeal. To 99% of 
people, its archaic. tgz is not a package management system :)

At the end of the day, it boils down to whether linux is a means to an end or 
an end itself for you personally. Id rather do other things with my life than 
recompile source or wait 4 years for an already outdated 'stable' package so 
Mandrake is the one for me.

 



Quoting Richard Meyer <meyerri at au1.ibm.com>:
> Hi guys,
> 
> 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).
> 
> RichardM

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