FAQ gally2: Distro Prejudice

Gregory Nowak romualt at megsinet.net
Sun Jun 17 16:22:00 EDT 2001


If that's going to be changed,
then we should have examples
such as
if you use slackware, type this.
if you use redhat, do this etc.
If we're just going to give
incompatible command after command,
then people will get very confused.
Greg


On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:57:14AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> I expect we don't want to betray a bias toward one linux distribution over
> any other. In fact, I think the current faq does exactly that without
> meaning to. All the examples are slackware based.
> 
> The solution, imho, is to carefully insure that examples are given in such
> a way that the main distros are represented somewhere in the faq. I don't
> mean many examples, one for each distro, where examples are. I just mean
> that on the whole, there should be parity. Else, there's a subtle
> implication of favor.
> 
> 
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