Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)
I'd like to appologise somewhat for my earlier reply. Speedreading I missed
the fact that it was a quote from a book.
Glad you think well of Debian. It seems to me that people reviewing Debian
frequently make the mistake of looking only superficially and giving a
negative opinion because they fail to understand the concepts behind it.
On Sunday 09 March 2003 19:51, J. Lambrecht wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 18:10, J. Lambrecht wrote:
> > // I am not on the list so please, reply to all
> >
> >
> > Sigh, and now i now why Debian's not for kids
> >
> > ---
> > "From : Linux Administrator Handbook p.35 (Prentice Hall,2002) "
> >
> > Debian startup scripts
> >
> > If SuSE is the ultimate example of a well-designed, well-executed plan
> > for the management of startup scripts, Debian is the exact opposite. The
> > Debian scripts are fragile, undocumented, and unbelievably incosistent.
> > Sadly, it appears that the lack of a standard way of setting up scripts
> > has resulted in chaos in this case. Bad Debian!
> > ...
> > Good Luck
> > ---
> >
> > Does anyone now if the SuSE startup scripts would work on Debian, or are
> > there more well-planned startupscripts available for Debian.
> >
> > Greets,
> >
> > J.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > _____________________________________________
> > mailto:jl_post@pandora.be
>
> Hi,
>
> The book sucks, would not dare to say so, since there is a forword by
> Linus himself. (Don't tell me -they- put pressure on him to do so)
> It's mostly a beginner's admin (me) studybook, i don't tend to use books
> really often and this book is good at keeping pace with me somehow.
>
> My mail originated mostly out of disbelief, i've been using Debian/GNU
> Linux on and off for the past couple of years and have successfully
> switched to linux since the past year or so. In my experience Debian is
> solid and well maintained, and then one reads a phrase like that.
>
> Debian wich is considered solid by most would have some gigantic
> weakness with inconsistent (unchecked) scripts ?
>
> // incosistent is my spellingerror :-)
>
> Since i'm no good at anything close to scripting i thought it would be
> informational to post this paragraph to this list ... I think of taking
> a dive into scriptingworld, eek!
>
>
> Thanks to all for your reply's.
>
> Joris
>
> ps: the SuSE question was kinda confussingly stupid, i admit
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