news: was (erroneously) Linux-users digest

[Tony Alfrey]

On Saturday 11 May 2002 08:29 am,Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 11 May 2002 14:04:24 +0100 Dallam Wych
>
> <dallam.wyche at virgin.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 08:38:08AM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > > Why is Caldera, which offers a free download, *bad*, while Suse,
> > > which doesn't offer a free download, *good*?
> > > Just wondering...
> >
> > SuSE offers a ftp install, for free.
> > It is usually available about a month after release I believe.
>
> Neither is good or bad per se.  As I've said before, there is no
> perfect linux distro, only various distros that are evolving towards
> usability.
>
> I happen to be a gentoo biggot and a minimalist (read: not a KDE or
> gnome user), but would I recommend that approach for a brand new
> refugee from Windoze?  Probably not.  A new user (IMO) could achieve
> equally good results with Caldera, RedHat, SuSE, or even Mandrake or
> ELX  
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I've been following this thread and, at the risk of turning it totally 
out into astroland, I would tentatively suggest that anyone that can 
get access to a new Mac running OS 10.1 (which is essentially free BSD) 
loaded up with applications, and poke around with it for a while.  When 
KDE on Linux runs like the new Macs, the Windoze refuge conversion 
problem will disappear.


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Tony Alfrey
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