Re: This was posted on Digg.com -- Linux Distribution blog/article

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

"Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org> wrote:
> But one thing I got tired of is hearing how Red Hat
supposedly
> "droped it's low-end free distribution."  That's simply not
> true at all.  A lot of people who aren't using Fedora love
to
> comment about how Red Hat "got out" of the non-Enterprise
Linux
> market, not realizing that Fedora *IS* a project like
Debian.
> ...
> The best features of different distros draw from each
> other.  This is very true in the "packages" distros like
> Debian, Fedora or most of the other distros based on this
> (either in the past or more recently).
> About the only distro that makes a radical departure is
Gentoo,
> which is a "ports" based distro.

FYI, here's a very long blog entry of mine on software
development and distribution, including some historical
perspectives on UNIX, Windows and Red Hat.  I invite people
who only see differences in Linux distributions to read and
may see the real similarities ...

http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/07/linux-distributions-packages-v-ports.html

I was cleaning it up for a publication, but I've been working
80 hours/week the last few months that I haven't had the
chance.



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