[kwlug disc.] All of you Ubuntu people

[Raul Suarez]

> See, this is where I feel a lot of OSS people go
> wrong.  The feeling that if they do it the hard 
> way, their system is somehow
> more powerful.  It's not.

I'd say "it depends". Here is my stance on this:

- When you use things like Ubuntu or Mandriva. Those
systems are designed to have the most number of users
up and running. That means that there are going to
include a lot of things that not every one needs but
that "someone may need". That definetivelly result in
a more complex and slower system: e.g. The boot script
will have to check for things that you may not care
less about, There will be daemons on the background,
more tasks will be automated, etc.

- When you have control building your system you will
know it better but you may fall for the "do not
invented here" syndrom. Of course if you build it
yourself you will feel more control because you
already understand what you did and it does not
include things you don't need. BUT, it would be
illusory to pretend that you will know as much as all
the experts that created one of the end-user distros.
Here the key work is "collective expertise".

So building a system yourself "may" be better, but it
also "may" be worst.

If you already know linux, you "may" have a better
system starting from a full one and then removing what
you don't need. Or you "may" not.

It all depends on how much time you want to put
optimizing your system and how much time you want to
put USING it.

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