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« on: 21 March 2004, 22:57 »
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Somewhere in California - At 8:30 PDT with the release of Snoopy Linux 2.1 and Goober Linux 1.0, the number of Linux distributions finally surpassed the number of actual Linux users.

http://bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html
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« Reply #1 on: 21 March 2004, 23:24 »
Ok...
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« Reply #2 on: 21 March 2004, 23:28 »
I always said that there're too much Linux distributions.

It's better if everyone combined their skills and worked on a mainstream distro like Debian, Fedora, Slackware, Mandrake, etc. instead of making a buck while working on shit distro's like Libranet and Vector Linux, which are lame spin-offs of Debian and Slackware.
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« Reply #3 on: 22 March 2004, 00:24 »
Fuck that. Everybody needs to pitch in and help out with the Future of Linux... GenSTEP!
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« Reply #4 on: 22 March 2004, 07:13 »
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BBspot is a satirical news and comedy source and meant to be funny.  If you are easily offended, gullible or don't have a sense of humor we suggest you go elsewhere.
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« Reply #5 on: 22 March 2004, 08:51 »
I agree with refalm.  TO many distro's.  People should just help with the popular one's.

[ March 22, 2004: Message edited by: MindFlyer-Paladin9 ]

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« Reply #6 on: 22 March 2004, 21:47 »
They only took into consideration registered users, I think.

But yeah, otherwise I agree with refalm too.
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« Reply #7 on: 22 March 2004, 18:37 »
Personally I have 6 distros of linux on my laptop and if anyone wants to try out Preacher Linux 1.0, it is available for download from my website.
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« Reply #8 on: 23 March 2004, 00:45 »
its not on linux wolfenstein....

i would like to try it
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« Reply #9 on: 23 March 2004, 02:48 »
Well, GNU/Linux IS Free Software, so anyone can 'take' GPL'd code and, 'blend' everything and make a GNU/Linux distro. This is the meaning of Free Software.

I too agree however that there are a lot of GNU/Linux distros, but what can one do? It is all about choice isn't it?   ;)
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« Reply #10 on: 23 March 2004, 16:06 »
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Originally posted by Refalm:
...instead of making a buck while working on shit distro's like Libranet and Vector Linux, which are lame spin-offs of Debian and Slackware.

i think it's good to have distros that are designed to be (from the outset) a fully functional desktop system, but at the same time, be fairly small, and suited to slower computers. i know you can just tweak the bigger distros so that they work, but most (non-geek)people are too lazy to do that...  
another bonus of a one cd distro is that for a dialup user, it only takes about 3 nights do download

maybe there is too much choice, but you get that when you let people do what they want with the code. it's both a good and a bad thing. no system is perfect, but i think open source has many pros and only a few cons...
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