[nylug-talk] Dell Linux survey

David Rosenstrauch darose at darose.net
Tue Mar 13 16:12:20 EDT 2007


jh wrote:
> 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

Also keep in mind that a vote for Ubuntu is to some extent a vote for 
Debian.  (Which is why I voted for it.)

DR


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