Re: Debian and Red Hat and Slackware prevalence
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On 31-Jul-97 Shaya Potter wrote:
>On 30 Jul 1997, Ben Gertzfield 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.
>
>I don't know how true that is about Debian. Doesn't Linus, Ted T'so, and
>a host of other prominent kernel developers use Red Hat. I knowin talking
>to David Taylor (one of the programers of quake, and the guy who did the
>original port to Linux) of crack.com, they use Red Hat. Actually their
>building their next games, Golgotha, on Linux box's and plan for it to be
>released simultanously for Win95 and Linux.
>
>Shaya
>
But they probably used to use Slackware. Now the RedHat stage. And then
Debian.
We Hope :)
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Date: 31-Jul-97
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