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The choice of Linux

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 2 comments
Red Hat Magazine; By Jesse Keating
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Many people claim that “Linux is about choice!”. That’s a neat phrase, but what does it mean? Does it mean that you should have the ability to twist and turn 400 different knobs on your Linux install? That’s what some think. Does it mean that you have the right to choose Linux, or choose your flavor of Linux, and then choose from the package sets within those flavors? That’s what I and many others think. There is a very distinct difference here too. Let’s look at it from a food point of view (one of my favorite points-of-view).

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The whole chefs-in-the-kitchen thing isn't working for me. Why can't he just come out and say what he likes/hates and why?
Keating does seem to draw the analogy between Linux Choice and food somewhat ambiguously.

Marcel Gagne is easily a much better "Choice of Linux" writer --- who BTW, DOES effectively pull references from chefs and cooking and applies these to to Linux. On top of this, Gagne constantly compares in his rhetorical/whimsical fashion, Linux to French haute-cuisine no less!)

One of Gagne's latest blog postings is the very appropriate 'Cooking with Linux - Still Searching for the Ultimate Linux Distro?' at http://www.marcelgagne.com/cwl092007.html This is an excellent read, and one wonders whether or not Keating read this in the last three-and-a-half weeks before publishing his own Red Hat Magazine piece?

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