On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 09:16 +1000, Res wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Craig White wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 09:08 +1000, Res wrote: > >> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> > >>> Welcome. Perhaps RH will see the logic of figuring a way to make > >>> it truly optional. If not, then I'll not be using their product. > >> > >> Doubt it :) thet are just as ignorant as m$, but teh good thing about > >> Linux is, we have choices, and if its for desktop, there is opensuse which > >> seems to be way more popular... > >> > >> These polls been up for a few months... > >> > >> desktops: polls.ausics.net/v1.php > >> servers: polls.ausics.net/v7.php > > ---- > > heck - Ubuntu is shipping on Dells and will likely dominate desktops > > because of their owner > > This might even be a good thing, since they are not bound to stupid U.S > laws, I was going to instlal F7 and compare it to opensuse which looks > real nice, and ubuntu, however i did not have time, and since F8 is only a > little way off, I will wait till then and compare, what concerns me about > ubuntu is the myriad of updates released, its not as bad as fedoras, but > close to it, maybe this is why opensuse is becoming most popular? who > knows.. ---- you have this way of leaping to conclusions. fedora 7 is a bit off since it represents a number of significant changes whereas I would expect that Fedora 8 will be a bit less aggressive. opensuse is well...suse and I could not consign myself to suse after Novell signed the agreement with Microsoft but that's just me. I got the impression (and I have no empirical data to confirm this), that ubuntu is starting to dominate desktop installations now. -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
