Re: Desktop suitability (was Re: this post is not off-topic)
> I'm not really concerned with how much geeks and developers like potato
> for the simple reason that they (we) are capable of dealing with the
> uncertainties of woody/sid and might even be willing to do the occasional
> `./configure ; make ; make install` to get things that our distro(s)
> of choice don't include.
For the last 18 months I worked with a very good developer (involved with
the GNOME project, very competent, writes well, etc)... Since I was the
sysadmin, I installed Debian in all workstations, and he started using it.
He said the organization and quality of the packages was great. He
really liked it in the beginning.
But some time later, we all started to need stuf that was not in potato.
Of course, me and hte other sysadmin compiled a lot of packages (that we
needed for develpment and documentation) in a local APT repository.
That other guy just didn't like the idea. It looked so ugly to him to go
compiling things under demand and keeping them locally. He insisted that
we were basically not using several APT features (including quick
security updates), and there were packages that we were just not able to
backport (because they used new Perl stuff). He considered switching his
box there to Red Hat, and I had to agree it was a good idea.
He didn't feel like using anything that has a "testing" or "unstable"
label (and the guy is absolutely not clueless).
Anyway -- my point is, new packages do make a difference, even for
develpers.
J.
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