Re: A lot of choice is not always good
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:58:10 -0700 (PDT)
Dr Nick Jacobs <njacobs@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I wanted to install an ftp server. So I started
> dselect and searched for names containing "ftpd".
>
> How many ftp daemons do you think there are on
> the Woody distribution CDs? 2? 3? 4 maybe?
>
>
> There are TEN. bsd-ftpd, twoftpd, wu-ftpd,
> proftpd, lukemftpd, muddleftpd, vsftpd, ftpd,
> an ftp daemon written in Perl, and one written
> in Python. That's EXCLUDING tftp daemons.
>
> Having 10 ftp daemons on the CDs is a lot
> less useful than having the best 2 or 3. I
> don't want to spend half an hour researching
> which ones are the best. I just want to install
> a good ftp daemon. How many other programs on the
> CDs are unnecessary duplicates of each other?
> Suddenly, Debian's proud boast of including
> far more apps than the other distros looks
> very dubious.
Who gets to choose what is included?
> Before somebody flames me for "not understanding"
> that Debian is driven by volunteers and that what
> goes on the distribution is whatever volunteers
> choose to put there, I'd like to point out
> that "volunteer" does not simply mean someone
> who works for no money.
If you would be so nice to take the time to find out how debian works
you wouldn't make a statement like this.
It's not like everybody that suceeds in making a .deb gets into the
distro.
If you don't appreciate the fact that the developers strive to to give a
lot of choices to dummys like me debian or linux might not be for you.
It's like everything else - you can't make a choice if you don't know
what you want.
have fun,
Klaus
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