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Review: How the Linux Community Ranks Distributions

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 6 comments
LinuxPlanet; By Bruce Byfield 		Mail this story
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At first, ranking GNU/Linux distributions seems alien to the spirit of free software. After all, free software is all about choice. What should matter is that your distro suits you, not how others judge it. Yet, in practice, community members judge distributions all the time. They don't use a single metric, and at times a distro's appeal is as simple as the fact that it is new or has released a new version. Yet, whenever community members choose a distribution to download or to build their own distribution upon, or to borrow a tool from, they are making a verdict on it.

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Comments (6)

jdixon ·
Sigh. And he's a supposed professional.
ColonelPanik ·
# one? Debian! The Colonel picks a winner.
tuxchick ·
Now now, jdixon, Bruce is good. Maybe he has a speech impediment. :)
Scott_Ruecker Story submitter ·
I make spelling mistakes all the time but this made it all the way to the webpage and is now in syndication with no editing?

Nobody's looked at it?

Whew!

edit:

Its a nice article and I agree with a fair amount of his opinions but, I've only used Mepis once or twice in my life and I know it's not spelled Mephis..
jdixon ·
> Bruce is good.

Bruce is OK, TC. You'd never make a mistake like that. Or if you did you'd get it fixed real fast.
Steven_Rosenber ·
I always make a point to read Bruce's work ... don't know where the Mepis thing came from ... but I keep saying that Ubuntu 8.04 is coming out in all sorts of months that aren't April ...

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