Hi Stefano. > Dear Andreas, thanks for sharing. I wonder however what is the point in > you sharing such a quote with this list. The Internet is full of > review-like articles, sometimes positives, sometimes negatives. I do not consider this a review article. It is clearly an article on documentation. I found the mentioning of the gdm3 configuration interesting, though, because I had the same experience when I upgraded one machine to squeeze a while ago. > So, when sharing, can you please add a note on why you are doing > that and what you think we should do with it? That would really help. Sure: I thought it might be interesting for the Debian Project News, a) because the Debian gdm3 is specifically mentioned, but, more importantly, because Debian is a huge FOSS project with a lot of documentation, but also quite a few with meager docs; but again, in some cases, with man files generated for Debian where none existed before. All in all I find this topic very important for Debian (and FOSS in general). So I thought, other Debian people might also be interested. > Additionally, in your only two posts to this list I could find, you seem > to be fond of sharing with us mostly negative articles about Squeeze; is > that a coincidence or is there a purpose in that we should understand? Don't you think making up a trend out of 2 postings is a little strong? ;-) I have been using Debian since 2000, with a short, hardware-caused intermezzo some time around 2008. And Debian is definitely my favourite distro. Also, while the article's general attitude was obviously negative, I don't think my post was: "Ljubuncic's negative conclusion is mainly based on two facts: 1st, squeeze doesn't have non-free hardware drivers - which has been published, so is not unexpected; but it made him search the net for a solution during his installation 2nd, the installation is not beginner-friendly, has too many options, and, worst of all, didn't change since Debian 5. He adds anecdotic proof against Debians acclaimed stability by saying he had a kernel crash in Debian 5. Looks a bit like he is trying to decry Debian; especially since he is proposing RedHat-based Scientific Linux as alternative." (self-quote, http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2011/03/msg00014.html) Anecdotic proof is no proof. I used the word "decry" in my post. Purposefully. And this was exactly why I posted the first time about this "review" (looked rather like badmouthing to me): "Well, just thought it might be interesting to other Debian people, and may be someone is in the mood to invest the time for a public reply." (self-quote, http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2011/03/msg00014.html) Best regards Andreas
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