[Sussex] Hi

[Simon Chappell]

Well put and interesting..

thanks

Simon

Geoff Teale wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 16:18 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
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>>If you like fluffy superfluous crap, it's lovely. GUI supreme. Yuck.
>>Debian rules, and that's that. :)
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>As a user and developer on several distros (we base our product on
>Debian, I have done development work on Gentoo, I was for a while a
>Fedora developer and I am currently working on tools for the Arch Linux
>distribution) I am here to say that Debian is not the be all and end all
>of distros.  For all the power of it's package management system you pay
>a massive price in terms of the complexity of rolling-your own packages
>and when things go wrong they go __really__ wrong.  Moreover anyone
>seriously considering managing a large number of desktop machines
>running Debian in it's "out of the box" condition is fooling themselves
>- and if you move to unstable, or start rolling your own packages to
>support hardware built in the last 18 months you sacrifice a lot of the
>things that are core to Debian's principles (i.e. Stability and
>testing).
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>Now I am not saying that any other distro is inherently better, they all
>have problems, and yes Debian is an extremely useful and an extremely
>influential distribution, but the way some Debian users around here talk
>you'd think it was the only solution.
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