Re: Joke

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:58:18 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 02:50:08 Thomas Pomber wrote:
>> Yo Debian, I'm happy for you, and I'ma gonna let you finish, but Ubuntu is
>>  the greatest operating system of all time!
> 
> I don't find that "joke" funny.  It's not offensive or anything, just the 
> context is all messed up.  
>>
>> Or not! What do you think lol?
> 
> I prefer Debian because more packages are well-maintained under main.  Ubuntu 
> provides good support for universe, I guess.  But, the fact that Ubuntu feels 
> those packages need to be separated just demonstrates that they are "second-
> class".
> 
> Ubuntu LTS is my second choice, and something I recommend if it is likely that 
> the user wants a commercial support contract.  I find the package manager that 
> Ubuntu shares with Debian to be enough of an advantage to put it above other 
> solutions like RHEL or SLE(D/S).
> 
> I am comfortable enough to use and maintain RHEL and SLE(S/D) in fairly simple 
> environments, if the user has some specific need for one of those systems.  
> That's rare, but is often related to third-party hardware or software being 
> certified with one of those.

Your comparison and contrast of different distributions of Linux is interesting,
Boyd; but please don't feed the troll.  It only encourages him.

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