[CLUE-Tech] United Linux

[Joe Linux]

At first I thought it was a great idea, but now that I've read a little 
more it seems like it should be called Loser's United Linux.  If you 
look at who has joined together, it's all the distributions that don't 
have much success with average users - sort of a collection of 
wanna-be's.   I have tried each of the distributions, but as a person 
with  an exclusive interest in a desk top linux distribution, none of 
them have cut it.  SuSE 7.3 flat out refused to install on my machine, 
and it would be too expensive to purchase SuSE 8.0 only to gamble on 
whether or not it would install.  A friend of mine in Hawaii has SuSE 
8.0 professional, but he told me to stick with Mandrake.  Caldera was 
okay, but it is annoyingly secure wouldn't allow me to configure ICEwm 
the way I want.   Turbo 7.0 ended up being unstable although it had a 
very nice installer.  So it seems that each has a comparatively tiny 
market share.  At the moment, I feel Mandrake is best, but in the long 
run we "hobbyists" who are interested in an alternative to M$ could end 
up moving to pure Debian.

Jeffery Cann wrote:

>On Thursday 30 May 2002 09:13 am, Crawford Rainwater wrote:
>
>>This is a combined effort of Caldera, SuSE, Turbo,
>>and Conectiva distributions.
>>
>
><snip>
>
>I didn't realize there are per-seat licenses.  I am not surprized to see 
>their proposal match the current proprietary model of per-seat cost because 
>that is what companies expect.  It's hard for many to realize that they are 
>overcharged for most commercial software.  
>
>RMS and the FSF are opposed:
> + http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=83
>
>Anyone else for / against the per seat proposal?
>
>Jeff
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