Re: Debian and Red Hat and Slackware prevalence
Mmmm wouldn't this have to do with the following (old) postings...??? ;)
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~grath/archives/rms-post/0057.html
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~grath/archives/rms-post/0096.html
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~grath/archives/rms-post/0089.html
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~grath/archives/rms-post/0098.html
Dave
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, 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
>
>
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