[nzlug] Dell are sooo pwn3d

[yuri]

On 29/06/07, Denise Bates wrote:
> I find choice is one of the best things about Linux distributions.
> Ubuntu isn't my kettle of fish: I can think of at least three
> major shortcomings which make it quite unacceptable to me. That
> isn't a problem, because there are several distros which satisfy
> all my requirements, or come tolerably close. Even if my preferred
> distro disappeared, I could make do with several others (or move
> to BSD, if the remaining distros all became Ubuntu look-alikes).
> Each to their own. Too much Ubuntu evangelising is a "bad" thing!

I didn't start this sub-thread (tangent) to evangelise Ubuntu.
Personally I use Gentoo.
I mentioned Ubuntu as a good starting point for hardware vendors and
ISPs to support because it seems to be the distro that linux newbies
currently start out on, and vendors say they don't want to support all
the different linux configurations so I say why not pick one of the
more common flavours and at least support that.

Yuri