Re: Why choose Debian?

[Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>]

On Friday 12 January 2001 15:59, Steve R. Hastings wrote:
> I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux
> distributions.  Please explain the top few reasons why you chose
> Debian rather than something else.

I cut my teeth on Slackware.  It was a wonderful learning experience, 
but would have been awfully difficult if I hadn't had a very good 
mentor -- thanks, jjohn!

Then I moved to SuSE for a few years.  It actually had a manual, and 
having a rpm was pretty cool coming from slack.

Then I heard about the Debian philosophy and I liked the concept so I 
tried it.  Now I support Debian on principle, but I would choose it for 
the package system anyway.  Debian handles updates/upgrades better than 
any system I've seen.

-- 
Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>   http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html
    All things in moderation.  And not too much moderation either.