Re: I can't believe this
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Jesse Evans wrote:
> I feel that most of the press coverage of Linux has been tainted by the
> commercial marketing efforts of certain distributions. If I were a writer and
> had no knowledge of the subject matter of my current task, I would first look
> to other media to see what gets the most play and work from there. If Debian is
> to suceed in the Linux markeplace they need to increase their marketing
> influence, but I think that's not their real goal; they instead want to create
> the best distribution available and hope that those who truly care will find
> their way through the Linux jungle.
Which brings up a point I have oten pondered, if Red Hat's install is so
great, why doesn't Debian just COPY it ... massage it a bit to make it use
some different paths, etc, and THEN concentrate on IMPROVING it. Their
current method of trying to invent a better wheel from scratch seems to be
a waste of resources. It appears to be a(nother) very egotistical stance
on the part of the Debian developers. Hell, just use the best thing that
is out there, modify it to fit your needs, and then improve on it from
there. Otherwise they are always going to be trying to catch up and
wasting resources.
Maybe if Debian could identify the weak points in the distro, adopt better
ways from other distros as an intermediate measure and then get them
completely integrated as time goes by might allow much faster progress and
a more useable distro in the meantime.
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