[ale] IBM is buying Redhat!

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 07:59:32 -0400
"A. P. Garcia via Ale" <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 7:34 AM Simba via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> > The DoD and any other government agencies should be using Debian.
> >
> > Support for the system does not have to be provided by the
> > maintainers of the software. Support could come from any
> > trustworthy American technology firm.
> >
> > Debian is the best choice because it is the most open and free, as
> > well as the most stable and mature, as well as offering full
> > capabilities in terms of applications and security. It's simply the
> > best choice.
> >
> > To limit government systems to inferior operating systems because
> > they offer commercial support from the developers is very 1980s.
> >  
> 
> The way I see it, Linux is Linux. It's kind of strange to claim that
> one is more stable than another. And it's poor form to make such a
> claim without offering some sort of evidence.

Some distros have systemd, some don't. Some distros glom on ten layers
of abstraction to accommodate the most newbie user, while others play
it closer to the metal. Some distros crash and burn regularly, and some
are rock solid. Oh, you could change Ubuntu into Slackware or vice
versa, but it would take you weeks of work.
 
SteveT

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