A little bad press about Debian

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

  A disturbing excerpt from "Linux vs. Linux", by Charles Babcock,
  Inter@ctive Week,
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20000320/tc/20000321261.html

    And yet, such an optimistic outcome is not a sure thing. Minor
    examples of Linux forks already exist. When Tom Stoddard, database
    administrator at BFGoodrich's Avionics Division, loaded backup
    software on company servers in Grand Rapids, Mich., he found an
    unexpected anomaly. The software operated right off the bat on
    servers using Caldera, Red Hat and Mandrake installations of
    Linux. But when he tried to get it to work with a fourth version,
    one called Debian, the desktop backup software from Legato Systems
    failed.

    The technical diagnosis: "Debian must have some libraries in a
    different location than the others," he said, meaning that some
    functions added by Debian to Linux cannot be retrieved in the same
    fashion as those added by its rivals.

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