Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 11:14 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
[snip]
>
> > I don't even understand this paragraph.
>
> 1% = total Linux install.
I'd say 5%, but that's just a quibble.
> Subset of 1% = Debian's cut of the above.
More like 20%.
> IE, if Debian users have some dillusions of the power they currently wield
> with hardware vendors they really need to be disabused of that notion.
> Increase the Linux install base to 10% which would put Debian's install base
> about on par with Mac OSX now and you might see hardware vendors giving a
> crap. Until then Debian is doing itself no favors my being obstructionist and
> driving people away based on it's own restrictive use clauses.
Oracle seems to be waking up to Debian. You can now install Oracle
10g Express.
deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main non-free
ii oracle-xe 10.2.0.1-1.0 Oracle Database 10g Express Western European Edition
ii oracle-xe-client 10.2.0.1-1.1 Oracle Client 10g Express Edition
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