[TriLUG] Debian question

[Dan Chen]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:44:50AM -0500, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:
> The commercial distros, with fewer human resources, are a little more
> streamlined in the process. This means that they are better able to
> support the latest and greatest hardware, kernel and whatnot. However,
> since they're all "off-the-shelf" sales, it's also expected that they
> support that new ATI gfx card sitting next to it at best Buy. So the
> "for-pay" distros spend a lot of cycles testing against new hardware,
> and optimizing for the current consumer. One example of this is the
> decision made by mandrake to only support for x586 and higher
> processors. Sure, it's optimized for Pentium+ machines, but if you like
> 'drake and happen to have a 486, you're SOL. 

Yep. One thing I really appreciate about RH is their extremely rigorous
testing. Cerberus, etc., are great.

-- 
Dan Chen                 crimsun at email.unc.edu
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