Linked by Andrew Davis on Mon 22nd Nov 2004 20:12 UTC
I admit that I'm a geek. I use Linux. I use Solaris. I use FreeBSD. At times, I use Windows. And without a doubt, I download and try almost every Linux distribution when they come out. Over the last few years, I've tried all of the RedHat/Fedora releases, 2 different Lindows/Linspire releases, Mandrake, Gentoo, Xandros, Suse, Ubuntu, and the list goes on.
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Well, Linspire might be cool for grandma but I can't say that I understand why anyone who claims to have some tech savvy would prefer a bastard child of Debian (Linspire, Xandros, etc.) to Debian itself.
Because people with more technical saavy than you get sick of dicking around with their system and in the case of a new install just want things to work out of the box. I run straight debian unstable on my colinux (www.colinux.org) and Ubuntu (a bastard child of debian) on another partition. It's long past the time where people respect you anymore because you're working a "harder" distro.
I run unstable without any problems ("unstable" really is a misleading label) and update my whole system as often as I like for nothing. Debian has far more packages than Linspire does and I've had no problems chatting with package maintainers (whose reputation and pride is on the line) directly by email. That's service!
You can run any distro you want and what other people run is none of your business quite frankly. And since you admit that you have a law degree and aren't that technical, let me inform you that there is a lot more polishing going on with Ubuntu or Linspire than just straight debian as well as specific patches that aren't in straight debian.
This is the second article by the wannabe CTO. He'd get a lot farther working out plans to save money and increase efficiency for corporations and making a reputation than by writing fluff for OSNEWS.
Why nobodies on the internet feel compelled to try and give people advice on how they should do their job when they don't know them or why not to write articles is beyond me. I guess it's severe psychological problems.