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The Complete guide to Linux Distributions

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

theGEEK writes "Techweb has "Your Complete Guide to Linux Distributions" - it's a fairly large article aimed at corporate types for integrating Linux into the company. " Covers all the biggies and some of the minors more geared towards the suits.

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  1. A few article comments. by Rick_T · · Score: 3

    Like others have said, as a whole the article wasn't too bad. It does suffer somewhat from outdated information, hwoever. For example, Caldera no longer sells WABI. They also didn't mention that WABI only supported 16-bit Windows apps in the first place.

    I also was shaking my head a bit at the "reconfigure without reboot" aspect that Debian was touted to have. IMO, that's effectively true with all Linux distributions. I know we don't have to reboot our Redhat-based servers for most configuration changes. I was expecting to see for Debian "potentially better packaging / upgrade system" rather than what I did see here.

    Some have mentioned that there wasn't mention of Linux support for other architectures in the article. Two things: 1) It *was* mentioned that Linux ran on Sparcs, Alphas, etc. etc. 2) The article was focusing on the x86, so comparing Debian/Alpha and Redhat/Alpha would be inappropriate anyhow.

    Even the BSDs got a mention under "Alternatives". That was pretty cool, even though I'm not a BSD user.

    I did like the fact that for once we get an article posted that *isn't* Linux vs NT - rather it focused on "So you want to use Linux."

    A more current rewrite of the article would be nice, though ...

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    -- Rick