[mdlug] Dell survey for Linux

[Novak, Louis (L.M.)]

Sounds to me like those whose favorite distro has fallen off the
darling list are the ones 'being mad and foaming at the mouth',
at least on this list. ;-)

Can't we all just get along and stop cluttering the list with
distro wars veiled as predictions.

As long as it isn't Novell/SUSE, I say!

-- 
Louis Novak  lnovak1 at ford.com   (313)248-6788 
Ford Motor Co., IT Learning & Organizational Development
Ask me about my Mercury Mariner Hybrid  





-----Original Message-----
From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf
Of Robert Adkins
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:32 AM
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Dell survey for Linux

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Robert Adkins
>>     
>
>   
>> PREDICTION: The Survey will be filled with a majority of requests for

>> the current Darling Distro of the greater Linux community as a 
>> pre-installation OS. Within a few years, when that Darling Distro is 
>> no longer the Darling Distro and something else is will be more 
>> interesting and the Linux community will be hopping all over Dell to 
>> make the switch to that Darling Distro.
>>     
>
>  I'd have to agree with that. However, the time it takes to switch 
> 'Darling Distros' is approximately the same as the time between 
> Windows releases, so Dell wouldn't be any worse off with Linux in that

> respect.
>
>   
    The cynical part of me is strongly suggesting that the current
Darling Distro isn't well suited for all tasks, from Desktops to
Corporate Data Center servers and that shortcoming could be a reason for
Dell to proclaim in the trade press that Linux simply isn't ready for
prime time. When the real problem is that the current Darling Distro
isn't really geared to be everything for all purposes.

    I believe that Dell would be best served to pick up a "Middling
Distro", in terms of having decent support for all levels and types of
computing and then the Darling Distro people can spend their time
tweaking their distro to work out of the box with the 100% Linux
Compatible hardware that Dell would need to use for that "Middling
Distro".

    Unfortunately, the majority of the Darling Distro supporters would
end up being mad and foaming at the mouth about how they are being
"sidelined" or "maligned" when the truth is somewhere nearby, but not
exactly at the "extreme" of where they are sitting. It's one of those
you can't really win situations, IMHO.

    Of course, I do hope that I am totally wrong here.

    -Rob
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