So Many Distros, So Little Time
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| Linux has reached somewhere between 30% and 40% of the server
| market (depending on whose figures you believe) because the
| major distributions just plain work on most server hardware
| from major manufacturers like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell.
| We need to convince enterprise customers who buy servers to
| demand hardware that can use Open Source drivers. Until that
| day arrives proprietary drivers remain a necessary evil in a
| Linux distribution. That?s just as true on the desktop as it is
| in the server room. Nobody will migrate from Windows to an OS
| that doesn't work for them on the hardware they have.
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| The nice thing about popular distributions is that you don't have to
| sacrifice any deeply held beliefs to use them. If you want an truly free as
| in freedom system you can choose to have it that way. The laptop I'm
| writing this on doesn't need any proprietary software to work as it should.
| I can have a truly ideologically pristine system and I don't need to
| reinvent the wheel or change distros to do it.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/01/so_many_distros_so_little_time.html?CMP=OTC-0O724Z062301&ATT=So+Many+Distros+So+Little+Time
http://tinyurl.com/3y9ry7
This is a sort of a rebuttal to Carla Schroder.
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