Hi Stephen! On Wed, 05 Jun 2002, Stephen Ryan wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 13:32, John Schmidt wrote: > > > I certainly appreciate the multiple architecture support of Debian. I > > have it installed on a powerpc, m68k, and x86 box. I initially > > installed it on my m68k box, since Debian was the only distribution > > that supported it. I made the switch to my other boxes because I liked > > the consistency of one distribution and hated the dependency mess of > > rpm. I have advocated Debian to others in my work place and will > > continue to do so. > [snip] > > Debian is hard to install, and I don't care - I install one time per > machine. Debian is easy to upgrade, and I like it - I upgrade and > install new software on some machine or other every week. > > The developers all get a huge Thank You! from me. > I have to add to this also :). While I only use x86 boxes I am still very happy with the Debian distro. While potato is outdated I still use it on my server and never have problems with it. I am content to wait for woody to become stable to upgrade the server. It does everything that I need and if it don't I will usually install newer packages from source. I'm a firm believer in "If you don't NEED to upgrade, don't". On my workstations I run woody/unstable and rarely have problems with it. Again, I install from source or make my own deb if I need newer versions of software. I made the switch to Debian about a year ago from SuSE and before that RedHat. Those distros have rapid releases but I don't think it's worth it for all the problems that arise with them. I've had much fewer problems with Debian. Personally I wouldn't change anything about this distro. And I want to thank the developers also. Someday I want to become one but I'm still learning. Keep up the good work. I'd much rather wait than be face with the hell I had with other distro's. -- B. L. Jilek <bljilek@crowbyte.net> PGP keys on my website --> http://crowbyte.dnsalias.com/~tcrow Linux user: 163800 | Debian Rules! | Slackware Rocks! -----------------------------------------------------------
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