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The Linux Distribution Game
Ladislav Bodnar writes: "I have installed and used many Linux distributions. The editorial, entitled The Linux Distribution Game is the result of my personal experiences - it aspires to be a gentle introduction to the many distributions out there. The rest of the DistroWatch site provides pure facts; this is the only exception, although I promise to be as unbiased as possible." This page is nearly worth it for the logos alone; the links to obscure and semi-obscure distributions are a nice resource.
I guess you aren't putting much thought into this. If his "friend" had removed his windows parition after 10 days. How could his final words (or conclusions!) be :
but after a month, I have adjusted completely. I am removing Windows from my computer!
when:
The friend called me 10 days later: "My Windows partition is gone!"...No, don't worry, I deleted it voluntarily..." He continued, his voice full of excitement: "I don't need Windows any more.....
The point here is, is that the article _is_ untrue. Obviously his friend didn't say "I'm removing windows after a month!", because he apparently already did after 10 days.
Put another way, his friend either decided to remove windows after a month or 10 days, not both.
One of the two statements are false. If one of the statements are so obviously false and paper thin, how true is the rest of the article? How well was is proof read? If it wasn't proof read enough to sufficently take that above into account, what about important technical details?
The best case scenario is that it is a mistake on his part. This lends one to question how valid his reporting methods are, if he makes mistakes on so simple a point. The worst case scenario is that he made the story up completely. In either case, the story is untrue as it sits.
Actually, Sid is the name of the 'unstable' distribution.
Woody is the 'testing' distribution.