Re: There is no choice
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:57:03 +0100
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2014 18:03:20 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:13:10AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> > > On 9/22/2014 10:55 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:31:57AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> > > >> Obviously it is important enough to enough users that it
> > > >> continues here. And shutting people up is not going to make
> > > >> the problem go away. It will, however, make users go away. I,
> > > >> for one, am looking at other systems now. And I think it is
> > > >> highly likely this path will force another fork of Debian, as
> > > >> occurred when Ubuntu forked.
> > > >
> > > > Oh Please! There are plenty of Debian derivatives. No doubt
> > > > there will always be derivatives, but your insinuation that
> > > > these derivatives occur because of problems within Debian, is
> > > > incorrect. Please stop spreading FUD!
> > >
> > > And why are there derivatives? Because someone didn't like
> > > something about Debian. To them there was a problem.
> >
> > Have you got any link to back this up. My understanding is that
> > someone creates a derivative because Debian is a good starting
> > point - someone has already done all the hard work -- all the
> > derivatives have to do is a few config changes add some eye candy
> > and voila! :) OK, it may not be that simple but hopefully you get
> > my point.
>
> Mark Shuttleworth created Ubuntu because he wanted to give away a
> free linux system to spread the use of Linux. He used Debian because
> he _did_ like it, not because he didn't.
>
> Lisi
And I'm sure Jerry likes Debian too. As it existed before systemd.
SteveT
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