Apologies in advance for responding to flamebait. On 08 Jun 2002 23:53:37 +0200 Florent Rougon <florent.rougon@free.fr> wrote: > Yeah, great, I like this principle too. There is a least one problem, > though: some important packages, say XFree 4.2, are said to be waiting > for woody's release. I know about several cases where this will imply Well, Woody will be shipping for XFree 4.1. Even if Sid gets XFree 4.2 after Woody's release, the chances of Woody getting it thereafter are astronomically small. > (because of the graphics adapters support in 4.2) a Mandrake > distribution being installed on a server[1] instead of a Debian > [1] Well, a machine on which several users will log into and run X > programs, among others If by "server" you mean something which X terminals connect to, the the server doesn't need an X server. It doesn't need a graphics card or output device. All it needs it the libraries. The apps will display on the terminals, not on the server. If you mean something which people will go and sit down at, like a kiosk or something, then one might argue that it isn't a "server". And, at any rate, there's nothing stopping you from running a more up-to-date distribution if that's your need. Or, updating your Debian installation, if that's your want, to include some stuff not yet in Debian. Your call, nobody's stopping you. > importantly, we are losing potential users. Debian has a very specific audience. If that audience is unsatisfied, then yeah, we've got a problem. But I don't think that's the case. (Let's keep in mind here that Mandrake and Debian do not share the same intended primary audience, okay? Regardless of what you may feel.) -- ________________________________________________________________________ \ David B. Harris, Systems administrator | http://www.terrabox.com / / eelf@sympatico.ca, elf@terrabox.com | http://eelf.ddts.net \ \======================================================================/ / Clan Barclay motto: Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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