Re: Linus uses Red Hat?
On Wed, Jul 30, 1997 at 05:57:04AM -0700, Technomancer wrote:
> While it may be important to a lot of people what distro Linus uses, I
> think what is more striking to a lot of people (especially within the
> US) is that NASA has used Debian twice now. Consider that (and maybe
> slip the words mars in there.. hehe.) and you get a lot of potential for
> vectoring^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hadvocacy.
Maybe .. but just because NASA put an 8085 in the Sojourner,
I doubt Intel is getting a lot of calls from people wanting
one on their desk. From a less technical user's point of view,
NASA has very specialised applications and they might feel
Debian is too specialised to be for them.
Hamish
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