On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:23:12 +0200, Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > There are two possibilities -- either people will respond to this
> > offer en-masse and it will spark yet another raving and exhausting
> > flame war, or it will turn out that we're already tired of this and
> > have already understood that it's pointless, impossible, never
> > consummate, never rational, and otherwise worthless and best skipped,
> > so we either just use whatever first came to hand if it fits us, or
> > compareourselves and decide which one we like best.
It can be useful if the people writing will try to make rational points,
and generally not flame too much. Not sure it can happen, though.
>
> I am simply amazed that people would seem to entrust decisions like
> this to a bunch of opinionated hackers. You're completely right,
> Alex, people should *test for themselves*.
Yes. The only problem is that I don't have the time for that.
I thought that part of the idea of a users group is to use other people's
experience.
I wouldn't blindly entrust that decision, but I would like to hear some
points for and against some distros.
But if you decide to answer with such a point, please think about your
readers...
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Tzafrir Cohen
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