>Standards are still mostly work-in-progress, which is why each distribution has its own installation and configuration utilities.

Yes, but that is true for everything. Anything that is not work-in-progress is dead.

>How many Windows machines are configed exactly the same? Where I work we have Win95, Win98, Win NT, and some Win2000, all running various Netware clients, etc. etc. It is just as much of a pain as anything, and is even more frustrating, since one would think the MS flavors would behave at least _somewhat_ similarly. I think config issues are a problem everywhere, and it takes a well-thought-out plan to deliver standard solutions to every desktop in a company.

Very well put.

>I think that Linux has a leg up because it is working on more standards every day, and every enhancement folks come up with are instantly available to anyone else. It is up to us to deliver a standard package to all users.