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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How dare the author not mention Slackware as one of the 133t.
Seriously though, Linspire is a good distro in its own way. While I would never use it, there are many people that need a simpler distro to ever use GNU/Linux, as they struggle enough with Windows.
However, I have to wonder what the author was thinking when he said that Linspire should develop CNR for other distros. GNU/Linux distros have way too many subtle differences in their layout, and there would be no feasible/cost efficient way to tinker the packages to fit each distro. It wouldn't be appreciated and it would waste Linspire's resources.