[NTLUG:Discuss] attn: newbies!

[micky john]

>From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at localhost.brownes.org>
>Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org
>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] attn: newbies!
>Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 14:15:18 -0500
>
>On Mon, 09 Apr 2001 10:25:20 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
>"Gorwood, Steve" <sgorwood at ti.com>  said:
> > Perhaps a page comparing the different major distributions: i.e.,
> > why would a user choose slackware over mandrake, mandrake over
> > redhat, etc.
>
> > I don't suggest that you rate the distributions in terms of quality
> > (which changes dramatically from release to release), but each
> > distribution brings a different philosophy, approach or goal to the
> > task and has a different target end user.
>
>It may be easy enough to characterize Slackware, but I'm not sure how
>you're going to be able to distinguish between Red Hat, SuSE,
>Mandrake, TurboLinux, and Caldera without being _forced_ to opinionate
>in a way that is going to lead to acrimony.
>
>After all, they _all_ have pretty common sets of goals, specifically:
>              To sell boxes to users.
>
>In the interests of maximizing the numbers of boxes sold, all of these
>are:
>
>- Plucking source code from much the same rivers of development
>   efforts,
>
>- Sponsoring development of their favorite bits of hardware drives;
>
>- Using the _same_ package management tool, RPM;
>
>- Building progressively prettier sets of installation and system
>   management tools.
>
>Three of those factors lead to convergence of code bases; the last
>item on the list leads to diverging sets of custom system management
>tools, which strikes me as mostly a Bad Thing.
>
>Over the last couple years, their _policies_ have been to try to IPO,
>and get tremendously wealthy.  It's not going to be easy to agree on
>_technical_ or _functional_ differences.
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i could compare three flavors:
redhat based versions
slackware
caldera (i'm pretty sure its not redhat based, right?)

But i'm newer to linux than most ntlug's, so i would need some input on what 
the main differences would be.
thnx,
-micky
ps. I will implement all the suggestions posted so far.

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