On Wednesday 20 September 2006 16:59, Amadeus W. M. wrote: > So do we. If we used ubuntu, we'd be posting on their lists. Well, we all use Linux, don't we? I use, in total, Fedora, Kubuntu, OpenSuse and Debian. I find distro. allegiances amusing, since I remember the days when Debian, Red Hat, and some long since departed friends were the only packaged distros. out there, and I was compiling KDE from source. And sometimes there are compelling reasons to choose one over the other, particularly for newcomers; I would not recommend Gentoo to a newbie, no matter how educational the experience would be. Peter -- Dr. Peter D. Roopnarine, Assoc. Curator Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology California Academy of Sciences 875 Howard St. San Francisco CA 94103 Phone: (415) 321-8271 FAX: (415) 321-8615 WWW: http://www.calacademy.org/research/izg/roopnarine/peter.htm "there's a mansion on the hill"
