Re: Neal Stephenson on Debian

[Andrew Cady <d@jerkface.net>]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 07:23:49PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> According to Alex Malinovich,
> > On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:26 -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> > > "As far as I know, Debian is the only distribution with its
> > > own constitution... but what really sold me on it was its
> > > phenomenal bug database... which is a sort of interactive
> > > Doomsday Book of error, fallability, and redemption..."
> > > 
> > >   -- Neal Stephenson
> > >      In The Beginning Was The Command Line, 1999, p.106
> > 
> > Thanks for the quote. I'm assuming you've just now read In the
> > Beginning? Better late than never I guess. :)
> 
> Re-reading, in fact.

I read that ages ago, but I didn't remember his mentioning Debian.
I think I'll take another look at it.