On 21 Aug 2001 23:46:10 +0100 MJ Ray wrote:

Neill Newman neill@entora.co.uk writes:

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At the end of the day, the best technical solution is not necessarly the best solution [...]

No, marketing has far too much influence. Why do you think we're heading up the creek at a rate of knots?

Marketing have an awful lot to answer for. I still don't understand how the IBM PC compatable is beating the MAC?

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I don't want people thinking that the community is arguing amoungst itself as to which OS/distro is technically superiour.

But we *are* arguing about what is technically superior and it encourages innovation. If we try to deny that it happens, people will be repulsed when they discover these arguments going on. We need to set the agenda, not just try to answer others' points.

Darwinasim in action! The arguing helps the distros to evolve.

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Use what is a good solution for the job, and if that is slackware, mandrake, *bsd, suse, debian then so be it..

Bah, pragmatist. Does your freedom and the benefits it brings mean nothing to you? (Notice that you include two freedom-impaired systems in your list...)

HURRAH! IMHO freedom is the most important thing, I now only use free software on my box (except nutscrape as mozilla doesn't work properly quite yet)

Also before someone says I am being two faced for saying Novell for file serving, I would like to point out the only time I am going to be doing so would be for money in which case I am kind of prepared to install a non-free package, but only when it is not possible with a free package.

One of these days I will do a bench test with linux verses Novell 5.

Thanks

D

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