Is linux free 5038

General Schvantzkoph

Well, I did not know that, Thanks. But I have seen fedora to be low quality, that is why my experience. Also, I am a programmer and I have that basic technical skill you talk about, if I want to install linux. (That is why I had rh 7 on my box while i was in college). But somehow, when they started selling linux, while I was stuck up with an old version, I thought, there is no difference between RH and MS. If you think about it, that selling media and 3 month support for a 100$ is just a gimmick. I will try Centos. Basically , I have lost touch with linux world, and now I hardly get time to experiment with it. Most free distros I tried were hopeless. They might be good, but I cannot spend 24 hours going from scratch, or maybe install a distro from CD and keep tweaking it for days, to finally get everything to work.

With respect to Linux, you can think of me as an average user, with good technical knowledge. How can linux succeed if they sell the user friendly versions while , dump the test versions on users. If this is how a person like me feels about linux, I can imagine the frustation of a user who just wants to play Quake, or browse the web.

Ever been to the Mysql site, for example. You will see a long long list of mysql versions for different flavours of Linux. And even amongst a single flavour, different versions !!. Look at the windows download list. Just 3 links !! With such confusion in the linux world, with the players looking only for profits without caring about linux (paying for linux isnt bad if they give quality stuff, reduce confusion), I do not think linux can be the much touted future OS. It was, but now the story has changed. If anyone dreams that rh can be an IBM or MS or apple, wake up.

I am reminded of "too many cooks spoil the broth" when I see the state of the linux market. They are repeating Unix's mistakes.