Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
Mark Mealman wrote:
> But Debian's bleeding edge really tends to lag. What's KDE up to on
> testing, version 2.2? Mozilla is 1.0? Java's at 1.1?
I'm missing something here... what does the term "bleeding edge" have to
do with testing? Unstable + experimental + packages downloaded from
developers' web pages (many of which are apt-gettable) is the "bleeding
edge" of Debian. Testing isn't even close.
> It takes a lot of time
> for developers to gather the sources, compile binaries across all of
> Debian's supported platforms and make sure they play nice with other
> packages.
True, but are you suggesting that Gentoo is "better" because they don't
bother making sure that things play nice with each other? I think that's
one of Debian's strongest points.
> And then there's the political BS that's been with the Debian scene since,
> well, about forever. I really don't miss that or the occasional elitest
> attitude that crops up.
Give them time; it'll come.
Craig
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