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What Your Choice of Linux Distro Says about You

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the choose-wisely dept.

iter8 writes "NewsForge has an article explaining what your choice of distro says about you. There's no comment on what using Windows or OS X does for your rep. I use Mandrake, so that makes me suave and sophisticated."

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  1. Uhm.. by Xeo+024 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh please, this is just as reliable as the Which OS Are you? quiz.

  2. Not informative, not funny, whee... by sultanoslack · · Score: 5, Informative
    Uhm, this isn't really news and isn't even really decent humor.

    If you want something informative, there's the old reliable Distro Watch and if you want something funny, try:

  3. Re:Slackware? by slavemowgli · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, slackware isn't the oldest distro. That credit is generally given to SLS, which appeared in mid-1992; however, there also was MCC Interim Linux (available from the university of Manchester in feb 1992), and TAMU, from the Texas A&M university (about the same time).

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