On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 14:59 -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > Given that the code is all "free," why don't all of the distros take the > best of the others? For example, if Slackware makes it easy to roll your > own package, why don't the others take the Slackware code for this and > make their systems do it too? Because some people prefer vi, others like pico, and some real nuts prefer emacs.