Linux World / Network World 2006

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:07:01AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 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

I run Debian on a 26M compact flash card.  Does that make debian count
as a small distribution? :)

>   - 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.

Many distributions optimize for at least 486, sometimes pentium,
although I don't believe for most things it makes any difference.

Lennart Sorensen
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