Re: Debian not included in Infomagic's June LDR (plus a little advocacy)
Several have written as WCurry has that
> Infomagic should put Debian back on their CDs, but its useless to put
> so little care into the quality of the product. I guess they figured
> Debian users aren't real customers. I *used* to be. Not anymore.
> Hope someone from Infomagic reads this thread, but they're probably
> too busy on the Red Hat newsgroups.
I sent Infomagic email advocating the reintroduction of Debian. I
compared Debian in terms of usability, technical quality, and type
and amount of advertising vs market penetration to Red Hat. Debian
wins hands-down on every issue except for Newbie installs on
standard hardware.
Isn't InfoMagic the outfit who has historically delivered broken or
out of date Debian stuff on their CDs? Didn't they put the broken
"1.0" on their CD without bothering to check the appropriateness
with the organization? I have received Debian CDs from them that
failed to be usable. (In fairness, I note that they did replace the
bad Debian CDs with Debian CDs that worked.
People won't blame InfoMagic for nonworking CDs, they will blame
Debian. Makes me I almost wish I had not written.
--David
David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
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