I am a dedicated Debian user and have three servers running it, but I'm afraid this article is useless. It doesn't even discuss X-Windows, which is genuinely difficult under Debian. For new users who are trying to decide on a distribution, it doesn't give other package management solutions a fair shake. We all know that the apt system is superb, but the article makes it sound like RPM doesn't handle dependencies at all! For your average new user, the advantages of apt over RPM don't outweigh the ease of use provided by other distros.
I manage IT for an advertising firm. Most of the clients in the company are Apple computers, although we have one whole department that runs Windows because no other platform has good software for media buying. I'm in charge, so I can run whatever I want for my own machine... I run Mac OS X.
Most of my important work is done on Linux. But when it comes to what I run on the notebook I carry around, I really do want what Apple provides with their digital hub concept. I want a great IMAP client, an address book that will sync between my computers, my phone, my Palm and at the same time access LDAP directories, and the ability to plug in a digital camera or scanner and just have it work.
The reason I use OS X instead of Windows is that on top of that, OS X supplies a bona fide bash prompt for me, from which I can do things like run ssh the real way (I get so tired of trying to do an scp with some stupid GUI tool) and use shell and perl scripting to process data.
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I am a dedicated Debian user and have three servers running it, but I'm afraid this article is useless. It doesn't even discuss X-Windows, which is genuinely difficult under Debian. For new users who are trying to decide on a distribution, it doesn't give other package management solutions a fair shake. We all know that the apt system is superb, but the article makes it sound like RPM doesn't handle dependencies at all! For your average new user, the advantages of apt over RPM don't outweigh the ease of use provided by other distros.
I manage IT for an advertising firm. Most of the clients in the company are Apple computers, although we have one whole department that runs Windows because no other platform has good software for media buying. I'm in charge, so I can run whatever I want for my own machine... I run Mac OS X.
Most of my important work is done on Linux. But when it comes to what I run on the notebook I carry around, I really do want what Apple provides with their digital hub concept. I want a great IMAP client, an address book that will sync between my computers, my phone, my Palm and at the same time access LDAP directories, and the ability to plug in a digital camera or scanner and just have it work.
The reason I use OS X instead of Windows is that on top of that, OS X supplies a bona fide bash prompt for me, from which I can do things like run ssh the real way (I get so tired of trying to do an scp with some stupid GUI tool) and use shell and perl scripting to process data.