Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 10th Feb 2006 22:21 UTC, submitted by egan
Mandriva's CEO got interviewed for the Mandriva club. "Right now, the new 'in thing' is Ubuntu. Of course, the situation is a bit different in this case: one person, with a quasi infinite check book is behind the operation. So they can give the system away and spend whatever is needed. Is this the right way for the open source eco-system? I find it hard to believe. One possible worse case scenario is that Ubuntu's plan is to use money to put all other community-based distros out of business and then start monetizing the installed base. If this were the case, they are doing the easy part: increasing their market share by giving away the product. We have found that the second part is a tad more difficult."
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2005-11-15
got nothing to do if they got free money or not.
I don't use RH, SuSE, or Mandriva because they are bloated and their package manager sucks big time.
I don't use Ubuntu because to me, it's bloated and slow.
I can't waste days compiling my apps in Gentoo.
Nor do i have time to configure Slack and fish for dependencies.
I use Debian Sarge with a minimal installation and IceWM; now, to me, that's a lean, fast box.
So, what does money has to do with it? It's the distro, and your needs in terms of hardware, time, and degree of tech-savvy that dictates what you use.