> The bad thing is with each flavor of Linux
> things tend to be a little bit different.
I know the feeling, but the alternative is having them all the same,
which can only be achieved by preventing anyone from innovating, which
is why the commercial offerings you are used to are so stagnant. On
the one hand, innovators depart from the norm specifically to discover
new, maybe better, ways of doing things; on the other there are
constant efforts at standardisation and making the bewildering range
of different ideas interwork better and to eliminate pointless
differences.
The freedom to choose, unfortunately, brings diversity. Actually,
the marvel is that one prorgam *can* work on five hundred different
operating systems. For a comparison, consider running an old-style Mac
program under Windows or vice-versa without a compatibility library or
emulator and see how much fun you can have...
A friend put it (and no offence is intended - I just don't know of a
better metaphor) "People who only know Windows are like people who
have been in prison a long time. If you let them out, all they want to
do is get back to their cell."
Welcome to the free world...
M
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