On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:06:43 -0800, Bart Friederichs wrote: > I want real technical benefits.
Of the top of my head: Open development (bug tracking system, mailing lists, IRC etc), high-quality packaging (no Red Hat style "contrib") with proper dependencies, easily upgradable including running systems, window manager-agnostic automagically maintained menu system, automagically maintained /etc/mailcap, integrated documentation system (docbase + dwww), supports several non-x86 architectures. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan