Ruari's thoughts

When I joined Opera in January of this year I was given the option to pick the distro of my choice. I've distro hopped for a while but initially thought I would go with Ubuntu due to its popularity and the likelihood that a large percentage of our users would also be using it. As it happened, on my first day I needed a working machine almost straight away and since I had a Mandriva CD to hand (I got it free with a magazine I had picked up the day before), I figured why not?

Indeed it turned out that I quite enjoyed Mandriva but I soon realised it was not as simple as picking a single distribution. When I initially started going through the Linux/UNIX bugs I noticed (unsurprisingly) that certain bugs will only show on certain distros, certain OSes, certain architectures or only with one version of Qt.

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