Re: Debian

["t.bedlam" <bedlam@concentric.net>]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:06:43PM -0800, Bart Friederichs was only 
   escaped alone to tell thee:

> Can anybody tell me why Debian is better than other distributions? And don't
> give me the 'it is the only really non-commercial version' crap. I want real
> technical benefits. Or is it all a matter of flavor? I have been using
> Slackware for one or two years now and I also liked that one. Switching to
> Debian was necessary because the store didn't sell slack.

Then it wasn't really necessary, was it? Only convenient.

One reason: have you seen the X directory structures under Red Hat? Ugh...
it is a nightmare. And then ln -s is put to liberal use so you are hopelessly
confused.... If Unix is hard, why make Linux harder??

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