On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 01:26:46PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > One thing I found humorous was the "This is simple fundamental stuff, > the kind of thing most other distros had sorted out back in '99 when > everything was via textmode and the Linux GUI was new and exciting" Makes me wonder if the guy had ever heard of X before... > In a world ruled by commerce, I choose Debian. Debian hasn't got this > "fundamental stuff" (or as I call it, fundamental fluff) worked out, > because where Redhat, SuSe et al, would give man hours to this stuff > prior to release, the Debian package maintainers were giving there > attention to important stuff, ooh, like I don't know... dependencies, > and bugs, and package inter-operation. This should not be interpreted as a slam on the boot-floppies guys, though. > So I would look at the commercial distro's dependency hell and say "This > is simple fundamental stuff, the kind of thing Debian had sorted out > back in 97 when no one knew what Linux even was." Exactly. I'm convinced anybody who thinks RPM is A Good Thing really should reconsider how much crack they smoke in a day. 8:o) > Is Debian really something you want to recommend to your friends? Maybe > other geeks, but most of my friends don't know the computers power > switch from the CD eject button! And I want to "recommend" them an OS > where they'll have to understand what a /dev/ttyS0 is? Bah! I guess Portland's just way ahead of the curve. I've gone through a couple CD spindles burning Debian for friends, most of whom are shocked that the software on the CD is actually free. -- Baloo
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