Dinesh Joshi wrote:
It is important to remember here that PCQuest is a
magazine and not a
software development company.
True but their misadventures are doing harm to Linux. People ( not
familiar with Linux ) get the
impression that Linux is for experiments only and is not fit for
serious use. Too many cooks are spoiling the great health giving soup. :)
They have been making this distro for first time
users. It's not upto
the mark but you shouldn't go around criticizing it if you have just
tried it on one system.
First time users need an even better distro as they would not know the
work around for many problems. One system testing may not be enough but
my system uses an Intel processor and an Intel motherboard that is a
better one in its category. It should atleast perform the same if not
better than the earlier distros.
Speaking of how good FC4 was, well they did release it with a broken
kernel which didn't boot on most Intel systems. They also did release
it with flaws in Xorg which prevents people from entering into any
virtual terminal once X server has started.
True!
Some of Rony's comments have gotten me thinking.
Vinod Unny who leads
( not sure ) the PCQLinux team is a HUGE supporter of M$. He is some
regional manager of M$ I think. We did have flame wars over IE6 vs
Firefox and IIS vs Apache. In both of those he went beserk and
supported Windoze and actually tried to justify some of their
"features" and how secure IE6 really was as compared to Firefox :\
Hmmm ;)
Regards,
Rony.
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