Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?
Vineet Kumar declaimed:
> * 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.
>
Vineet, thanks for the more even-handed account. My post was probably a
bit harsh--I wrote the first section (quoted above) before visiting the
mondo website again and seeing the improved situation.
PM
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Paul Mackinney
paul@mackinney.net
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