Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Nov 1999 15:34:45 +0100 (MET) | From | Gerard Roudier <> | Subject | Re: [OFF TOPIC]Re: bdflush problem ? |
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On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, François Désarménien wrote:
> Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > desar@club-internet.fr writes: > > > > Please, not another distribution war. This isn't the place for it. > > > > Sorry, was not trying to start a distribution war. I just wanted to > point out that such mistakes, and the lack of information from the > responsable(s) can tarnish Linux reputation, which I don't like, hoping > I'm not the only one.
Hmmm... You have been victimized by a problem in a Linux distribution, and being French myself, I perfectly understood the tone and contents of your posting against that distribution. ;-)
Building a Linux distribution seems to me a very complex and hard work, given that guys have to make work together numerous ingredients that, on the whole, live separately and sometimes in sin. The risk of a serious mistake seems large and I am not surprised such to happen sometimes.
You must consider a commercial Linux distribution as a commercial product not different from any other commercial product. The same way you donnot purchase blindly a commercial product should apply to you facing Linux distributions. A bad Linux distribution will likely tarnish itself rather than the Linux kernel given that numerous excellent ones do exist for years.
When a human (this applies to French people at least) is victimized by a flaw in a product, he generally reacts by thinking and claiming that the offending product is just shit. Obviously this is untrue, otherwise everything should be considered so. Speaking for me, I have understood your reaction in that context.
A distro war is very unlikely to happen given the number of camps that is far geater that 2. Before such a war to happening, most, except 2, will have probably to die of starvation. ;-)
> I apologize for having been off topic on linux-kernel,
Gérard.
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