On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:43:26PM -0500, adcarlson@aei.net wrote: > Why switch? SuSE is a great product, and easy to support. I would probably > recommend a business go with a commercial distro like SuSE as opposed to a > devout hobbyist/community based distro like Debian. One of my friends gives the reason for moving from SuSE to Anything is "Dude! It's SuSE! It's German and weird!" Not that normally either of those are disqualifying factors for anything with him...he's pretty damn weird no matter how you qualify it and he listens to German industrial and noise (yes, noise is a genre, and it delivers what it advertises even to those who like it) nearly exclusively. But he does have a point, SuSE is German. It's also indescribably weird, not that this is particularly bad (I'm not used to SuSE), though this has nothing to do with being German. But seriously, if you had the choice between apt-getty goodness and anything else, which would you pick? Heck, I wish I could use apt-get on reality. # apt-get install sex girlfriend apartment-in-edmonton perfect-work-schedule Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: night-midweek-shift american-job apartment-in-beaverton The following extra packages will be installed: canadian-residency canadian-job passport life day-shift weekends-off higher-income The following NEW packages will be installed: canadian-residency canadian-job passport life day-shift weekends-off higher-income sex girlfriend apartment-in-edmonton perfect-work-schedule 0 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 3 to remove and 37 not upgraded. Need to get 12.9MB of archives. After unpacking 23.8MB will be used. Sometimes you just need to tweek the packages you already have without making serious life changing adjustments. In this case, you could "dpkg-reconfigure beverage" to change that generic soft drink into a refreshing cold Kokanee or Molsons after work. Don't want it in a can and want to start over? dpkg-reconfigure -plow beverage will start you from the top so you can get that Kokanee in a pint instead. Be warned, though, attempting to dpkg-reconfigure -plow <person> may have unexpected social and legal ramifications when used on someone the incorrect gender or inclination, or when used at inappropriate times or places. Though now that I think of it...when will this functionality be included? 8:o) -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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