[nylug-talk] Dell Linux survey

[Martin, Jared]

I may be new to the scene, I may be naive, but is it possible that Linux Distrubutions is a market with a lot of competition where the leaders are neck-and-neck? Perhaps Gentoo was generally the best for the majority last year and Ubuntu is this year. Perhaps next year another leader will emerge. Although I also agree with jh. Ubuntu has money behind it without having the shackles of supporting a large cooperation, that definitly boosts it's quality. And at the same time one would definitly be naïve to think that Ubuntu will never lose the steam it currently has. Either way, this compitetion is definitly good for the consumer. My point is, rather than being a fad, I think it's just good market competition.

-----Original Message-----
From: nylug-talk-bounces+jmartin=dglaw.com at nylug.org [mailto:nylug-talk-bounces+jmartin=dglaw.com at nylug.org] On Behalf Of jh
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:02 PM
To: NYLUG Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] Dell Linux survey

Sunny Dubey wrote:

> The linux hobbyist distro market is all about fads.  Had this survey 
> come last year, Dell would have been shipping Gentoo machines.  Today its Ubuntu.
> Tomorrow its whatever.
> 

Although I appreciate where this sentiment is coming from, I think that Ubuntu is a different horse. It has deep pockets behind it, and real legs under it. Canonical will get it to general commercial acceptance.

Oh, I voted for Ubuntu ;)

My $.02.

jh
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