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Re: Debian and Red Hat and Slackware prevalence



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On 31-Jul-97 Alex Yukhimets wrote:
>> I've been noticing quite in interesting trend, lately.
>> 
>> Seems most newbies to Linux, way back when, would use
>> Slackware. 'cause that was the only thing available.
>> 
>> Nowadays, since you can buy Red Hat at Fry's, and Egghead, and every
>> other electronics store in the US, it seems there are throbbing hordes
>> of newbies running it. (At least that's what I've determined in
>> comp.os.linux.misc :)
>> 
>> But! On the linux-kernel developers' list, most people are talking
>> about Debian.
>> 
>> Perhaps Debian's becoming the developers' OS of choice, while Red Hat
>> is replacing Slackware as the introduction to Linux.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>
>I'd love the intention of Debian to support its image as 
>"developer's OS of choice". 
>

But one thing to consider is RedHat makes it a habit to give free CDs to many
of the developers.  The author of fetchmail uses RedHat for just this reason. 
I also think Linus uses RedHat.

It would be really cool if Debian had some way of doing this.  Possibly get one
of the CD vendors to be nice enough

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