Matt, I apologize if you seem to have been hit recently by the Debian Advocacy Brigade, but I -do- want to add one thing myself.
Craig Sanders said: > > RE: your web page at http://mkracht.aye.net/~matt/linuxdist/ > > > Debian > > > > Web: http://www.debian.org/ > > FTP: ftp://ftp.debian.org/ > > You've got this part correct, at least. > [and then goes on to state some problems he had with your review of Debian] I think your page could be improved -- and made significantly more fair in the process -- if you included with each distribution listed the version number of the distribution you were reviewing, and where you got the distribution. As Craig mentions, there have been some notoriously bad Debian CD's made by some companies (He mentions Infomagic, and other companies have also been mentioned on the Debian mailing lists. I choose to not name names). Many of the problems you cited with Debian (6 disk install, difficult CD-ROM install, older versions of programs) exist with Debian 1.2, but are fixed with Debian 1.3. Debian 1.3 ships from at least one company in a Debian-approved 2 CD set that is bootable -- for a no-floppy install. The time between 1.2 and 1.3 allowed for many programs to be upgraded and tested before 1.3's release. Other problems (like dselect's user interface) are being worked on. It is unfortunate that your apparent review of Debian 1.2 became known to the Debian community so shortly after the release of Debian 1.3, especially without being identified as Debian 1.2. For many of us, the Debian you reviewed isn't the Debian we use on a daily basis. As Craig mentioned, newer versions of most of the packages are available in 1.3, or from the "unstable" distribution on all of the Debian distribution mirror cites. The latter is updated on a regular basis. A 2-disk Debian CD set made from the "Official" Debian 1.3.0 ISO9660 disk images is available for $4.95 from Linux Systems Labs (see http://www.lsl.com). Offhand, I don't know of any other Debian vendors offering 1.3.0 from the official disk images. I would encourage you to pick up a copy and re-evaluate Debian. If you still don't like Debian, you are entitled to your opinion. In the mean time, please update your web page to state what versions of Slackware, Red Hat, and Debian you are reviewing. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
