Linux World / Network World 2006

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 01:59:53PM -0400, Herb Richter wrote

> Annnd, this could be a good chance to put a positive spin on what may
> be a big negative in the public's eye - the confusing number of Linux
> choices.  We could show choice, control, selection, specialization,
> customization and flexibility to be what serious users want and what
> makes systems more secure - what we have - along with, nowadays,
> simple and easy right out of the box.

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-05-24-005-04-PS&tbovrmode=3
"Questioner: What are you planning to do about all the different kinds
of Linux around? It's so confusing out there!"

"Linus: People from East Germany have found the West so confusing. It's
so much easier when you have only one party."

(Hi Evan<g>)

  We should tout choices as an *ADVANTAGE* of linux.

  - 1 size does not fit all.  Imagine if you could buy only 1 model of car.
  - floppy-based firewall/router distros
  - small distros that boot and run off a 512-megabyte USB key
  - single-purpose servers (yeah, including *BSD)
  - desktop-oriented distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Linspire, etc.
  - tuned/optimized distros like Gentoo.  This is linux's answer to
    those RISC salesdroids who brag about how their *OPTIMISED* OS+apps
    run so much faster on their RISC chips than a 386 binary-RPM runs on
    a 686.

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