[plug] Controversial comparison of distros?

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Tue Oct 28 17:30:46 WST 2003


On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:14:29PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:

| Ah...yes, that wasn't good prose on my part. It went like this: I
| thought Simon said "[operating systems] differentiate themselves...based
| on target audience and fitness for a particular purpose", then you said
| "exactly", then I said "I like...[operating systems that differentiate
| themselves based on target audience and fitness for a particular
| purpose]". But what he had actually said was "*distributions*
| differentiate themselves"...my mistake.

All this talk of distributions differentiating themselves ... hmm, I
spot a Calculus pun in there somewhere :-) but I'm buggered if I can
make it work.

| > That you shouldn't really be on this list at all?
| 
| It is very odd that I'm on this list.

And even odder that you are one of the more prolific posters...?

Cameron.

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