[Glastonbury] Newbie to Glastonbury LUG

[Sean Miller]

> > Martin's Debian mates seem to like things to have been going a while
before
> > they'll certify them "stable" -- php 4.2.2 came out about 18 months ago
and
> > has been certified by its writers as stable for over a year (from
memory) --
> > I have heard rumours that Debian are now certifying the 486dx2/66 as a
> > stable platform, Pentiums being in a beta testing stage and anything
over
> > 500Mhz "bleeding edge" ;-)
>
> Just in case anyone has a tendency to believe this FUD, you will find a
> copy of phpwebsite running under Debian testing + php 4.3.3, at:

Ah good...

> Sigh.  It's so-o-o boring having to deal with the disbelievers, and
> those who would rather show off the latest-and-greatest than the
> reliable-and-trusted.

Hold on a moment!! Two seconds ago, you were saying that 4.2.2 was "bleeding
edge", should be avoided at all costs and that phpwebsite was idiotic to
rely on this ridiculously immature technology... despite the fact that
everybody but the archaic luddites at Debian HQ had certified it "old and
redundant" about a year ago when they moved on to 4.2.3

Let's put my comments into context, before we start ranting that anybody
using anything but Debian are somehow second-class citizens... first it
seems that saying anything good about Windows was heresy, now it seems that
installing anything other than Debian is almost as bad....

...let's not lose sight of the fact that one of the joys of Linux is the
variety of distros and options... we should be celebrating this, not
knocking down anybody who has the guts to install anything other than
Debian, a distribution that clearly has a lot of good points but is also far
too "techy" and "geeky" for a vast majority of the population... *and* seems
to take years and years to certify any third-party software (such as php) as
"stable".

Here's to diversity. Debian are lucky to have you, Martin -- but it may not
be everybody's cup of tea, however much you evangelise.

This is LUGOG (Linux User Group Of Glastonbury) *NOT* DUGOG (Debian User
Group of Glastonbury) -- PLEASE bear that in mind.

Thanks!

Sean