[nzlug] Dell are sooo pwn3d

[Nevyn]

On 6/29/07, Ross <rosscoad at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Craig Box wrote:
> > With a finite amount of support, and a perfectly serviceable file system
> > otherwise available, how much developer and support effort should be
> > diverted from other tasks to support this?  And ReiserFS?  And JFS?  Etc
> etc
> > etc..
> >
> Now that's a much better argument.
> > Too much choice is a bad thing.
> >
> I'm not sure I agree with this however, a main reason I choose to use
> Linux is because of the choices it offers, I don't think there is too
> much choice..... not from this end-user's perspective anyway.
>
> Ross.
>

We have to remember one Ubuntu's main selling points when it came out.
Redhat were offering a 3 cd install. Debian, 14 cd's (or something
ridiculous like that anyway).

Ubuntu's strength was that it was 1 cd, download anything that was surplus
to the cd, but otherwise the 1 cd would or should fulfill the majority of
needs. I.e. a word processor, browser, an environment to work within (I'm
guessing they could only fit one environment on the cd thus we have kubuntu
and xubuntu) etc. Ubuntu was sort of built on the idea that too much is a
bad thing.

However, having the choice of adding the universe and multiverse
repositories is definitely a good thing in my books.