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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..and built buy a paid employee of a legitimate company instead of *some guy over Germany* that might've actually put a backdoor into his package.
uhhh... someone who says such stuff is an idiot imho. german coders are not worse than any other coders. and they do not live at te end of the world
now to more serious stuff:
the dependency hell is actually nonexistend with tools like apt-get or urpmi or emerge, so what does he try to tell us? that linux-computing has not advanced in the last years? that only linspire made progress? wake up.
i do not see, where installing packages is easier in linspire as in e.g. mandrake or debian. one click-install is nothing new in linux.
i do not see, why someone should pay for a "mediocre" distro like linspire if he/she can get imho better distros for free. mandrake is imho better than linspire, same with suse, ubuntu or yoper.
if he does not like the fedora-bluecurve style, that is his very own "taste-problem". thousands of users like it. and it does not look like win 3.11 at all. has this guy ever used a win3.11 box?
finally: does this guy get paid from linspire??? it reads like an advertizement, not like a serious article.
two thumbs down.