On Jun 30, 2006, at 7:31 AM, Kevin Cully wrote:
> Just as a clarification, I'm sure that SUSE comes with a *lot* more
> stuff than MEPIS. When you pay for SUSE, it's my understanding
> that they pay some of the developers for the more interesting codecs.
>
> MEPIS takes a slightly different approach for the software they
> provide. Some distos will only provide the free goodies (free as
> in beer and freedom) while MEPIS will provide the additional
> goodies (free as in beer but not necessarily freedom) such as Real
> Player, Flash plugin, some of the video codecs, etc.
MEPIS seems to be a media player that also runs Linux. Nothing wrong
with that, but not my focus.
On my primary development workstation, I need LAMP, SciTE, Eclipse,
more development tools, browsers, blogging tools, news aggregators
and communication tools, something pretty much every distro will
provide. I'm really trying to find the most pragmatic choice -
optimal, flexible, stable, reliable - so that I can plan on install
and configure and run for a couple of years with minor updates. I may
just be daydreaming.
On the other machines we have around the house, I ought to try a
MEPIS install.
Ted Roche
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