Posted by: Anonymous
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on July 06, 2008 11:32 PM
These points are too low level. The stuff about X session and login manager are don't cares.
What matters is cutting through the "marketing". For example I know of a certain unnamed multimedia distro that is quite cool, but makes claims to novel operational modes which are in fact duplicated (in superior ways) by another distro marketed to system administrators. The latter group thinks so little of the feature(s) that it doesn't even highlight them. The former group touts them as the best thing since sliced bread and exclusive to their development project.
This is where the key distinctions between distros are to be found - underneath the marketing. Some of your points do help with that, others are just petty checklist sort of stuff.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 72.204.223.246] on July 06, 2008 11:32 PMWhat matters is cutting through the "marketing". For example I know of a certain unnamed multimedia distro that is quite cool, but makes claims to novel operational modes which are in fact duplicated (in superior ways) by another distro marketed to system administrators. The latter group thinks so little of the feature(s) that it doesn't even highlight them. The former group touts them as the best thing since sliced bread and exclusive to their development project.
This is where the key distinctions between distros are to be found - underneath the marketing. Some of your points do help with that, others are just petty checklist sort of stuff.
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