P. Christeas wrote: > On Wednesday 29 September 2010, Henri de Solages wrote: > >> 1) Small businesses ... I would prefer a system that JUST WORKS ... >> > I second to the whole content of that email. >
I think that's highly unlikely. No volunteer-driven Linux distro is going to produce the type of turnkey commodity system Henri describes. Volunteers are generally techies who value flexibility and choice; for a distro to serve all the needs of its contributors (and why else would they contribute ?), flexibility and choice are crucial. What he describes is typically the product of after-market niche packagers producing things like netbooks. Real-world distributions are in the business of appealing to as many people as possible, and certainly not in the business of saving a small business owner the cost of hiring a sysadmin to customize the distro to his exact needs.
