Similar or fewer distros than windows versions...

Similar or fewer distros than windows versions...

Posted Oct 13, 2005 16:08 UTC (Thu) by southey (subscriber, #9466)
Parent article: How many is too many?

if Linux distros are defined by package management.

A certain company that Dell has very strong relationship with still sells at least four versions (98SE, 2K, XP and 2003) and embedded versions (CE), has related versions floating around (including 3, 95, 98, ME, NT) and DOS. Each of which are not fully compatible and not to forget the different service packs that some software require to run and others crash with. In many cases the different distros within the same package type are more like Windows service packs.

So perhaps we have too few distros?

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