Linux Desktop Distro Shootout 383
An anonymous reader writes "InfoWeek has posted an open-source OS comparison. Linux Shootout: 7 Desktop Distros Compared pits openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.4, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1 against each other. And the winner is ... Ubuntu. Author Serdar Yegulalp writes: 'Ubuntu 8.4 remains one of the best desktop distributions for many good reasons: it works with almost any hardware you throw at it, and has tons of features for both existing Linux users and prospective converts from Windows.' He also gave openSUSE points for ease of use on the desktop, and Mandriva kudos for ease of administration."
Better methods of statistical comparison. (Score:5, Funny)
2 - Build many identical robots.
3 - The round starts upon insertion of the disk.
Last standing robot wins.
THUNDERDOME!!!
Re:Add free version. (Score:1, Funny)
Hey!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Recent Linux convert from Windows (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Almost any hardware you throw at it" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fedora (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hey!!! (Score:1, Funny)
Bill Gates did but they only used it to shoot both of them in the foot.
Re:Hey!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Nothing is off-limits to Ubuntu's crazed, fundamentalist frenzy.
Ubuntu: Answer me this Mr. Suse, what good is that superior firepower of yours if you can't even boot. [cut away to a man masked with a smiley face mutilating an innocent young grub]
OpenSUSE: St. Linus perserve me, I'll exact my revenge on you, all of you monsters!
Re:Lastest Ubuntu, Older other distros (Score:1, Funny)
Ubuntu 8.4? (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you.
Re:Ubuntu 8.04 (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ubuntu 8.4? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Add free version. (Score:1, Funny)
And the winner is... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:8.4? (Score:2, Funny)
*cough*
Re:8.4? (Score:3, Funny)