Distro flamewar (was: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Linux success story)

[Timothy R. Butler]

Hi,
> When I joined the list, you guys were right in the middle of one, which 
> didn't to much to convince me that Linux is the way to go, if people 

  Oh, that wasn't a flamewar, it wasn't even a flame"conflict." That was
a little spark. ;-)

> can't even agree on which Linux to use. In fact, come to think of it, one 
> of the real services which you "installaholics" could do for us newbies 

 FWIW, I don't usually do my installing for fun, but for my work at OfB
(which has finally come alive again after two major server set backs
over the last three months).

> is, when you install each new distro, test it for compatibility with a 
> set suite of apps which churches are likely to need. At the very least, I 
> would want to know that OpenOffice, Mozilla, F-PROT for Linux, and those 
> few church-specific apps I've been able to track down would all work in a 
> given distro *before* I went to the trouble of installing it and trying 
> to learn how to make it go. 

  Which church specific apps? Maybe I could start testing 'em then.
Testing Mozilla and OpenOffice is somewhat "assumed" -- I've never run
into a distribution where they didn't work. :-)

  In Christ,
	Tim
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