Linked by Anthony Hicks on Tue 8th Apr 2003 16:17 UTC
This (quite long) article has been written by me for two primary reasons: One, to hopefully save someone else the time and hassle associated with trying out various Linux distributions, and two, to promote some discussion and feedback regarding what a modern Linux distribution should be, and of course to contrast this with what is currently available. I am exploring the offerings of MS Windows, BeOS and MacOSX, and then taking on a number of well-known Linux distributions.
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He says that with windows you can't customize it enough so he doesn't like it. And what he love about Linux is that you can customize everything to make it work exactly as you want. So you start to believe he would want a source based distro so that he can optimize it for his system. Which is a fair agrument in a sense because he wants to compile explicitly for his hardware to get every last bit out.
BUT then he goes to say:
The biggest problems the source-based distributions face, in addition to the time associated with compiling everything, and the need to manually configure your system, is the fact that you're more or less reliant on its creators in order to keep the list of available software up-to-date.
WHAT DOES THIS GUY WANT THEN. A distro that just happens to be completely compiled explicity for HIS and only HIS system without him having to do ANYTHING. He says he loves how you can configure linux to the extreme but hate to configure it.
This guy DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE WANTS from an OS. He just wants the OS to do anything and everything in the world but if you asked him what the anything and everything in the world was he could tell you. Or, he answer would probably be - "I want it to run fast, on all hardware and to do everything I could every want". Which is the most vague answer in the world!