Re: Death Match

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> with regards to my little talk at the meeting in April (8th) I had
> suggested to Richard to include a short presentation of new features of
> the next version of SuSE (due in a few weeks). However we agreed, that
> this might look too mutch like a sales-pitch. No matter, what I'll do, due
> to the company I'm working for, it always will become something like that
> :-)
> 
> Now, here is another suggestion : The Linux Distribution Death Match . The
> goal is to find out, how user-friendly each Linux distribution is on a
> fully supported PC (i.e., it should be clear upfront, that all components
> run with a specific Linux distribution). Then three new users, that
> haven't had any exposure to Linux before (but should've got a bit of
> computer background - e.g., they should know, what a partition is, so they
> don't have to read the complete SuSE manual in advance) should test all
> three Linux Distributions, e.g. RH, SuSE and Debian. Finally, each of them
> gives a rating from 1-6 in predefined categories for each distribution.
> 
> I believe, that that is neutral enough to make it independant of SuSE.
> 
> R.
I prefer the SuSE 6.4 thing.  Admittedly I've yet to make it along to a
meeting, but I have no interest in which distro is more "user-friendly"; it'll
be totally subjective for a start (unless we can clone someone a couple of times
especially for the test), intimidating for the laboratory rats, sorry, clones,
and at the end of the day who cares?  I run SuSE, someone else runs RedHat,
someone else runs Debian.  We (will) have Linux Answers/Format for that type of
thing and Mandrake and Caldera already won, but I'm sure you already know that. 
Let's put SuSE head to head against Corel and see who wins?  But what will that
prove?  Plus the people on this list aren't new users, except me of course, but
I've already tried out RedHat and I've only been using Linux for about six
weeks/two months.  If you're worried that the SuSE 6.4 is going to turn into a
sales pitch, then perhaps someone could heckle the case of the other distros? 
Only joking.  

Sorry to waffle on and on and on...

Harvey
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