While I don't notice the untasteful attitude of "holier than thou" too much on the mailing list, it definitely pervades the whole of #debian on irc.openprojects.net with its stench. Which is the primary reason why I quit going there many months ago ... at the most offensive are two operators that I feel make the channel a very unpleasant place to be IMO. I give a lot of space to the Debian folk, however. I forget what the actual package count is up to these days, but it's certainly in the 10,000 range. That's a SHITLOAD of software to have to maintain binary compatibility with. And by a bunch of pure volunteers at that. I _do_ think there is an attitude problem with Debian, but I'm uncertain as to whether this is something that was easier to ignore in the past or if it has indeed gotten worse. For me, I've moved to an alternate distribution where attitudes haven't yet climbed into an ivory tower for my primary PC. I keep Debian on all my other machines because I still prefer the myriad features of the distribution that makes remote administration such a breeze. There was a time when I would have snickered at somebody that chose a distribution based on the attitudes of the most vocal users, but with the plethora of distributions out there and the growing sophistication of GNU/Linux software apart from distribution-specific configurations, I see myself moving in that direction at a much accelerated rate. Anyway, not that anyone really cares, but this is just my 2c. Sean On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 18:13, Stephen Turner wrote: > what the heck? people seek help on debian and dont get answers, people are > getting insulted and debian supposedly has a good rep? no one answers > questions around here! no wonder debian has a rep of being the hardest > damn distro to install. no one can get solutions to their issues. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes > http://autos.yahoo.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > -- GPG Public Key available: http://sean.gutenpress.org/sean.asc
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