<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Todd Walton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:42 PM, David Champion <<a href="mailto:dave@dchamp.net">dave@dchamp.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> They all have strengths and weaknesses (some more than others), but they're<br>
> free, and today with easy to use virtualization, and many distros have a<br>
> Live CD version, there's not much of an excuse not to try them out.<br>
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</div>I can think of one: They're all pretty much the same. You'll find<br>
slightly different layouts and different administration methods and<br>
maybe even a different init system. But are you really going to find<br>
anything so different that it's worth the effort of installing it and<br>
using it for a while?</blockquote><div><br>I think that's why Dave mentioned Live CDs. With those, you don't have to install them, you can try them out first.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> You can ask 100 Linux "experts" which distro they think you should run, and<br>
> you might end up with 100 answers.<br>
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</div>One would hope.</blockquote><div><br>I'd hope the reverse. That means there are at least 100 different distros that are "pretty much the same". No wonder some people think Linux is confusing. <br></div>
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