Posted by: Anonymous
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on July 04, 2008 11:21 AM
I admit I just skimmed your comprehensive list, and agree with most, well probably all of it. A few items I didn't see mentioned specifically:
* What's the track record of the distro being reviewed?
Some distro's have had a habit of being bleeding edge, ie. preferred latest versions of components over stability. Did the last few major versions have habit of crashing?
* How long has it been around?
Goes to the longevity of the distro
* What's their policy on free vs. proprietary?
You touch upon this under codecs. I would like to know what the beliefs and policies are for any distro with respect to what they include and not, how easy that make it to access non-included components etc.
* Policies
You could probably lump policies for inclusion, stability vs. newness and a few other together. The idea is to be able to say: "this distro is about ease of use, has a pragmatic view on including non-free software, includes most of the codecs you need for multimedia, and generally stays behind a version or two in order to improve stability."
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Distro track record and how long it's been around
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 80.232.16.130] on July 04, 2008 11:21 AM* What's the track record of the distro being reviewed?
Some distro's have had a habit of being bleeding edge, ie. preferred latest versions of components over stability. Did the last few major versions have habit of crashing?
* How long has it been around?
Goes to the longevity of the distro
* What's their policy on free vs. proprietary?
You touch upon this under codecs. I would like to know what the beliefs and policies are for any distro with respect to what they include and not, how easy that make it to access non-included components etc.
* Policies
You could probably lump policies for inclusion, stability vs. newness and a few other together. The idea is to be able to say: "this distro is about ease of use, has a pragmatic view on including non-free software, includes most of the codecs you need for multimedia, and generally stays behind a version or two in order to improve stability."
Anyway, well done. I love it.
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