Galloping Featurism
I'm beginning to believe that Debian may never be a stable system.
A slight, but significant, attitude change may be the solution.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe there is a better mean between Debian
and Red Hat -- Debian is too complex and complicated, but Red Hat is
too simple. Even so, it's easier for me to customize Red Hat after
an installation than Debian. For all it's configuration variables
and questions, Debian takes much more time to install, even when you
have unusual requirements. It probably says something that I use
Debian at home and Red Hat at work.
The attitude change I was talking about might be described this way:
* from "what can we add?" to "what must we add?"
* from "what feature is missing?" to "what bug needs to be fixed?"
* from "what doesn't do what I want?" to "what is difficult to use?"
Dan
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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> NIS is simple and sufficient for all our security needs and more.
but not for the needs of others, as this whole discussion
has sufficiently shown
> NIS is the standard for scaling UNIX systems
again this discussion has sufficiently shown that NIS is
one method, but certainly not a standard method, and
of course not THE standard method (yup, you havn't said that).
jjm
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