Re: Why Debian?

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,

	I know I am biased about this, but I'll venture forth anyway. 
 You mention you want a machine that is
 a) functional 
       This is a functional, working machine I am writing from. I am a
       consultant, and this machine *has* to be live almost on a 7x24
       basis, my bread-and-butter depends on it.
     
       It has most everything that my DEC Alpha workstation used to
       have (including Motif), and pthreads. (It does not have DCE,
       but hey, I couldn't afford it anyway)

       IMHO there is no other distribution that can do better (did I
       say I was biased?)
 b) feature-loaded
    About 1100 packages and growing. *And* you can install rpm format
    packages as well. There are not many things you can find on any
    other distribution that you can't run on a Debian machine.

 c) maintainability and upgradeability
      This *is* Debian's forte. No toeher distribution has the
      dependency trees like Debian has, and though there are a few
      kinks in the system, these can be avoided by reading the release
      notes (does anybody ;-)

	I would not advocate Debian merely for the free software
 aspect. (I don't advocate emacs for that reason either). I quite
 frankly think that Debian is the best distribution out
 there. Period. 

	manoj

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Manoj Srivastava               <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
Mobile, Alabama USA            <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>


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