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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Eugenia wrote:
"For the most part, Xandros, Lycoris and Lindows have a common goal (the desktop), so their offerings are similar and they were represented in this article by Ark Linux. Slackware and Debian are the geek/ dev person's Linux, and were represented by the similar Gentoo (even if they are not source-based exactly).
Overall, I believe that the article had at least one representative of each "Linux category"."
Not a chance.
They were all rpm or source based distros.
Packaging (software installation) is a major beef among
many users. There are 13 Distros that use Debian Based
system, including Xandros, Lindows,Libranet,Debian itself, and an entire region of Spain.
Now perhaps one could argue that mandrake has urpmi
available but I saw no mention of it explicity in the
article.
So to not have one Debian Based Distro in the review
is a major ommission and sorry, but not just representative of Linux.