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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Nicely written rebuttle, however I must please beg everybody to STOP with the car comparisons! As shown with the recent statement by Gates (I think) about the car industry and development, cars are NOT computers. Car security cannot be compared to operating security. A computer is infinitely more complex than a car in its mode of entry and uses. A car does one thing with no 3rd-party developers: it drives. A computer can be used to do many many things, must be fairly open as a platform (yes, even MS Windows) so that they can be available to 3rd-party developers, and is ever changing. A car is a car is a car. It can't blow up while you're driving it, but that's about it. The developers don't have to worry about being backwards compatible, or anything other than driving down the highway. Please stop it with the analogies.Oh, and it's easy to lock your car, it's not exactly easy and very well-advertised that you have to use Windows Update (wow, I really wish they would pop up windows making people do it, and power users couldn't complain because they're the ones who want computers to be secure). Even an idiot knows enough to lock their car.