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Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?



On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 06:55:53PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Pigeon (jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk) [030928 16:00]:
> > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:27:27AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> > > At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo
> > > Rabson, who took some special time to trash Debian. His beef is with
> > > Debian's initrd-enabled kernels which mondo either doesn't handle at all
> > > or doesn't handle well.
> > 
> > "I can't write software to cope with this feature of the Linux kernel
> > and therefore this distro that uses it is crap"? Please tell me it
> > ain't so...
> 
> no, it wasn't as simple as that.  Hugo was trying to write portable
> software, which is always a frustrating challenge.  He did offer to
> enumerate a list of reasons why he didn't like Debian.  I don't remember
> exactly what he said, but I remember thinking his reasons were valid at
> the time.  It's just his opinion after all, which, by accounts on the
> current version of the site, has since favorably changed.  Even then,
> Hugo didn't want to exclude Debian; he had just had difficulty working
> with it, and was fortunate to have Hector take care of the Debian stuff
> for him.

Thanks, that's much more cheering!

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