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[ILUG] Distribution wars

[ILUG] Distribution wars

Sean Edwards cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 29 16:20:44 IST 2001


How much would it cost to join the RedHat, Mandrake,
or SuSE army?  I assume Debian and Slackware would be
free.

-=Sean=-
--- Paul Kelly <longword at esatclear.ie> wrote:
> Niall O Broin wrote:
> 
> > [teams] RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian and
> Slackware. History (and
> 
> > literature - ref. 1984) does show us that wars are
> much more
> 
> > interesting when you've more than two armies.
> 
> 
> I wonder would the RPM heads gang up on the apt and
> the utterly 
> unpackaged people? Or would the packaged masses form
> an alliance to wipe 
> out Slackware first before getting on with business?
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
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