You are right, you do not know the back story.
Travis
Chad Perrin wrote:
> First of all, I'm reasonably new to this list, and am probably a
> comparative newbie to Linux amongst the rest of you. Hello. My
> name's Chad. Nice to meet you.
>
> Travis R. Birt wrote:
>
>> Well, a couple of things, first, why would you buy more than one
>> version of Lindows? If you are a member
>> of CNR, you get all updates for free. You can put it on every
>> computer in your house owning just one copy.
>> I can understand not wanting to pay for CNR, but for beginners, it
>> can not be beat. Also, to clarify, I was ONLY talking about Linspire
>> because someone asked about it specifically. I pretty
>> much attempt to not mention distros on the list because I ALWAYS get
>> responses like this. "My Distro is
>> better because..." I am glad you are happy with your distro. Stay
>> with it! However, when people ask questions
>> about a specific distro, why run a commercial for your favorite
>> distro? What is the point exactly?
>> I think Linux needs to quit fighting with itself over its 10% market
>> share and get to fighting MS who has the
>> lions portion at 90%.
>>
> I think you might have misinterpreted Mr. Rodriguez's intent. Since
> the original email in the thread asked for easy-to-install,
> user-friendly distributions, it was only logical to offer another
> distro that might suit his needs more closely, just like Mr. Ford is
> doing with Mepis. I don't think anyone was attacking your enthusiasm
> for Linspire, either.
>
> Forgive me if I'm stepping into a discussion I don't understand the
> backstory behind, but your response seemed a bit hasty to me, Mr. Birt.
>
> Speaking of Mepis, I've heard good things about it, and am considering
> both that and Knoppix as possible end-user workstation OSes for a
> business network I'm planning. The other option, at the moment, seems
> to be a carefully tailored SuSE (which is simply the distribution with
> which I'm most familiar), as I'm looking for something that doesn't
> require licensing fees to avoid prosecution for multitudinous
> deployment. Before I go out and start trying to evaluate all of the
> above the "hard way", can anyone here offer any insight on my
> choices? Are there better distros for my needs than what I've
> suggested already (and if so, please tell me why)?
>
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