[Sussex] Hi

[Steve Dobson]

Geoff

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:42:36PM +0100, Geoff Teale wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 16:18 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> 
> > If you like fluffy superfluous crap, it's lovely. GUI supreme. Yuck.
> > Debian rules, and that's that. :)
> > 
> 
> 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).
> 
> 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.

And Gentoo isn't?!?!?!?!?!?  You've waved the Gentoo flag a bit in the
past.

Steve