On Wednesday 25 February 2004 06.20, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi folks, > > With less than a day to go, I have put my talk up on the net > at http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talk.html. Comments welcome. > > I would like to thank all the people who helped me put this > together. Now, if only I don't blank out in stage fright tomorrow ;-) Cool! Nitpick: isn't 'underrated' written in one word? | Debian packages trace theirs relationships to each other not merely through | a flat dependency/conflicts mechanism, but a richer set of nuanced | relationships -- Pre dependencies, ordinary dependencies, recommendations, | suggestions, conflicts, and enhances relationships. I'm not sure what somebody totally unfamiliar with the Debian packaging system will take home from this - it all sounds familiar to me, but isn't it perhaps a bit short for the unitiated? | You can fine-tune the degree of risk you want to take. On some of our | machines (the server, the kiosk machines) we run `stable'. Some of the other Did I miss where you introduced the stable/testing/unstable system in Debian, or does the audience already know it? | When it comes to portability, NetBSD is supposed to be the byword. However, | I went and had a good, hard look at what is suported by NetBSD, and Debian: | I found that debian supports ibm s/390 and ia64, while NetBSD has support | for sun2 (m68010), PC532 (whatever that is), and VAX. I am sure which set I | am more interested in (though it might be cool to have a VAX puttering | around in the basement). :-) Perhaps you want to mention that NetBSD also has a high count on supported architectures, because what they count as an architecture, Debian sometimes calls a subarchitecture (and thus doesn't count in its 11 supported archs)? Typo: | I have anecdotal evidence if it not being as sa... s/if/of/ Nit: | hobbyists and übergeeks No charset info in HTTP header? | I can emphasize this enough: for "serious"/production usage, binary distros s/can/can't/ supporting & installing many machines: mention that RH has kickstart, other available solutions, fai, ...? Typo: | would be far better choices than OpenBSD of base Debian Stable. s/of/or/ > http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talk.html Is this a stable URL? I'd like to bookmark it, and throw it around whenever a Distro war breaks out :-) greets -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/smtp
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