Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:28:12PM -0400, Chris Humphries wrote:
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> | On (13/10/05 19:55), William Ballard wrote:
> |
> | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> | From: William Ballard <nospam_50916@alltel.net>
> | Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:55:05 -0400
> | Subject: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix
> |
> | On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:50:16PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> | > I'm a developer now?! Cool!
> |
> | Nor am I. But I heard that said "we don't care if anybody uses it but us" comment a
> | couple years ago and I thought it was a good idea. Of course the OpenBSD people (all
> | 5000 of 'em) wonder why anybody would use that flash-in-the-pan Linux after all.
> |
> | So Debian is already a little bit pregnant :-)
> |
>
> Making cracks at OpenBSD (with FUD) is not appropriate. Blanket statements
> like that do more harm than good, especially when they do not apply.
>
> Please lets keep cracking on others off the list. Lets try to keep this
> somewhat appropriate :)
>
> If you (second person plural) have done any kernel programming and auditing
> with linux and openbsd kernels, you would appreciate the beauty, simplicity,
> and correctness that exists in the openbsd kernel code, which is quite the
> opposite in Linux, though most everything "works".
I wasn't cracking on OpenBSD. I don't think you parsed my post correctly; maybe I
wasn't clear enough: I of course recognize nice OpenBSD is. It has crappy hardware
support.
I guess you could have parsed my words two different ways. Trust me, I was coming from
where you were.
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