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[Pete Hardie]

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On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> I'll jump in, and true to recent form, right back out. :)
>
> Fedora and CentOS, depending on the reason for the system. Why? Because I
> can very easily support dozens and dozens of the boxes while lifting very
> few fingers. It's not ideal---and believe you me, no distribution is, yet.
> The closer I get to end-users, the more I realize the truth that it isn't
> about the system. It isn't even about the support. It is about the ability
> to provide SUPERIOR support with minimum resources. An ideal distribution
> would cover that on all consumer visible fronts. We posixheads are great
> great great with the stuff the end user doesn't see or the PHB doesn't
> support. We need to become better about the other area in the pool...
>
> Anyway I am throwing away today's soapbox. Back to your regular chatter....
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Sep 25, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Jim Kinney <jkinney at jimkinney.us> wrote:
> >
> > Welcome back!
> >
> > Let's start a flame war with what distro you most recently installed and
> why didn't you use <fill in another favorite>?
> >
> > :-)
> >
> >> On September 25, 2014 5:22:05 PM EDT, David Jackson <deepbsd at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >> It's been a long time since I've been on the list (maybe 8-9 years?),
> >> and I thought I'd say hi.
> >>
> >>
> >> I set up some Linux boxes here at home and am getting in the swing of
> >> it all once again  I'm sure I'll have questions, because prior to
> >> recently, the last distro I installed was Slackware 10.1!  :-)  My how
> >> things have changed on the distro front.
> >>
> >> Well, I'll sit back and watch for a while and raise my hand when I
> >> break something.
> >>
> >>
> >> Good to be back!
> >>
> >> Dave
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