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Old 02-08-2007, 09:21 AM   #1
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LXer: Why Having 500+ Distros is a Good Thing


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I just browsed back across some old bookmarks I had made on subjects to blog about. I've been playing catch up for the last few days as some of my projects I've been working on are slowing down. During this browsing session, I happened upon a blog entry titled "So Many Distros, So Little Time" which originally jumped across the RSS reader during January of this year. I gave it an honest read and was disgusted with the article quite a bit. Let me go point for point on this:

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Old 02-08-2007, 09:54 AM   #2
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personaly i think by having "So many distros" will actually create "So many time" for any given individual ... its human nature ...

infact , by having lots of "re-invented" linux distros doesnt mean its normal to have a situation where they are accessible too easily ... i suspect that there are always abundant supplies of different "distro" of many different things ...


//hmm , probably the internet is the real sucker of innovations(means the practical ones) and bravery ...


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