If I'm not mistaken, the idea of giving out the cd's is to attract people to linux. I'm not sure that having a weeding agent helps our cause. Sure, a redhat system and a slack system and a gentoo system are all fundamentally similar -- they're all linux. But installing gentoo took me days and installing redhat took me 45 minutes. If the people we're giving these cd's to are well-versed and interested in spending the time on a debian or gentoo install, then fine, but then I don't think those kind of people would immediately associate linux with redhat. Keep in mind, there's a difference between associating linux with redhat and associating easy-and-transparent-linux with redhat. justin >I do see a trend where "linux" to many new/curious folks means REDHAT, and >in the past have found that 'linux support' meant that there was an RPM >available, nothing more. That just ain't right. There should be fair and >equal "billing" for all. If someone passes because all you have left are >Debian, Slack, Gentoo or whatever then I'd consider that a good "weeding >agent" and let them pass. > >.02 > >-mj > > > >>I think one of the great things about linux and >>open source is that you're not locked into one vendor's distro. I think >>it's important to get that message out so people don't get the idea that >>RedHat = Linux. There are always alternatives... >> >>Personally, I think Debian might be too much for a new user doing an >>initial install without assistance. But for a workstation, and for >>someone who doesn't want to compile everything, it rocks. The package >>management is far superior to rpm, IMHO. >> >>Slackware's installer is menu driven and straight forward. Accepting >>the defaults (like redhat installs) gets you a running system in no >>time. It detects most common PC hardware out of the box. It just >>works. Makes a great workstation and gives you the flexibility to learn >>more when you're ready to start compiling stuff from source. >> >>distro flames > /dev/null >>-- >>scot >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > >--------------------- >Jentges.NET, Inc. >Voice: 763.783.3702 >Cell: 763.370.1201 >--------------------- > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list