[ale] Building the perfect Linux end-user systems.

[Dan Lambert]

I think that you and I have been on parallel courses, and we just 
arrived at different solutions together! =;^)

The end goal is that whatever you choose works, and that appears to have 
happened for both of us, using different tools. Maybe this is really the 
coming strength of Linux on the desktop starting to show up in the real 
world computing arena.

It's great that multiple users can find a workable solution for their 
computing problems, using multiple distributions, and all of us are 
happy with our results.

I think that's a huge change from there only being one OS that works on 
the majority of the computer hardware out there, and the provider has 
less than stellar customer support and marketing attitudes.

Dan

James Taylor wrote:
> I'm not a hard-core linux hacker, and I don't use windows in any form, so Linux is my sole productivity tool.  I have to have stuff that just works.
> 
> I almost never have to worry about dependency issues.  If I had to work at getting my platform to work rather than using my platform to work, then I would look elsewhere, but I haven't had to.  When I have tried other distros, I have never found one as easy to use and support.
> 
> -jt
> 
> 
> James Taylor
> The East Cobb Group, Inc.
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
> http://www.eastcobbgroup.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>>>"Michael B. Trausch" <fd0man at gmail.com> 10/07/06 12:06 PM >>>
> 
> James Taylor wrote:
> 
>>At the risk of starting a distro-war, SuSE has been the distro that
>>I've used because almost everything I've ever wanted to do has "just
>>worked" out of the box, or has has had distro-specifice RPMs
>>immediately available.
>>
>>I see a lot of traffic relative to Ubuntu that revolves around how to
>>get things to work that I just use out of the box.
>>
> 
> 
> I suppose that I need to pay better attention -- most of my stuff just
> works.  Including my WiFi (which I have never seen happen until I tried
> this).  In any case, I will never use an RPM-based distribution again;
> RPM is burdened with issues.  I recently saw someone using an RPM based
> distribution, it told them it was time to upgrade, and an hour later it
> finally finished calculating dependencies -- and it was missing one.
> 
> No, thanks.  I'll take no packages at all before I will take RPMs ever
> again.  It is a shame, IMHO, that LSB made RPM the standard, and not
> DEB/dpkg.
> 
> 	-- Mike
>