WOW! What a statement [LWN.net]

WOW! What a statement

Posted Nov 8, 2006 22:31 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
Parent article: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)

> A software distribution is meaningless if it does not include all of the software that the target userbase expects to use.

I mean, what can you say to this? I guess the conclusion would be that all operating system distributions, including Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD etc. are meaningless, as they sure don't include all of what target userbases expect.

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WOW! What a statement

Posted Nov 9, 2006 5:05 UTC (Thu) by dgilmore (subscriber, #40144) [Link]

As someone who supports Windows, OSX and Linux for a living. I'll post
some of my thoughts.

Windows and OSX both require me to first remove alot of crap that I don't
want nor need. then I need to go through the hellish process that is
updating and installing the software that I want. The big ones that
stand out is a lack of productivity suites and pdf reader/writer.

Linux installs are a much simpler process and the finished system
generally has all That is needed on it. its a one step process to get
updates. and simple to install what other software i need. I can if i
want do a kick start install and ensure i have everything i need
including updates at the end of the install.

The reviewer is entitled to his opinion and i strongly disagree with it.
Yes there are some bugs in the installer. yes there are bugs in all
software. But Fedora does a very good job of responding to them when
filed in the right place. Namely bugzilla.

WOW! What a statement

Posted Nov 9, 2006 13:06 UTC (Thu) by cpm (guest, #3554) [Link]

As someone else who also supports Windows, Linux and OSX for a living.

I strongly echo the orig sentiments.