[Gllug] Whinge

[Dan Kolb]

On 30 Aug 2001, Jon Masters wrote:

> > Chances are, of course, that a lot of novices haven't heard of
> > Debian.
> 
> That's their problem.

Really? Why? How come that almost all die-hard Unix geeks have heard of
Windows XP, but probably quite a lot of die-hard Windows geeks have not
heard of Debian?

> File system corruption is not the same though - I wasn't referring to
> kernel induced problems...and anyway, how many *production*
> distributions with dangerous kernels do you know of causing any
> corruption recently?

Have you tried to install VMWare under some stock RedHat kernels? It
throws up various warnings about data corruption. It did that even with
some 'vanilla' kernels.

> > Why didn't you switch to, say, FreeBSD
> Personally? I would not switch due to licensing, but that's me.

You are running Exim, then, not Sendmail? Most of the network tools are
BSD-licenced, too (ping, traceroute, etc.). But here's not the place to
get into licencing wars, so I call a stop to this section of the thread
here.

Dan
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