On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> Well, it is obvious that some people here are just being hard headed. I
> really do not think there are that many dummies here. Look at it like
> this. A person wants Linux and decides to spend about 30 minutes to choose
> which one they are going to buy. These are sysadmins, not kernel
> programmers. They take a quick glance, note that Red Hat is 5.2, Debian is
> 2.0 and all the commercial apps ship configured for Red Hat, end of
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> decision making process.
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> They see 2.0 Linux and 5.2 linux NOT Debian 2.0
> and Red Hat 5.2 It is how their minds work.
They should choose Red Hat for the reasons you stated. If we should
choose select version numbers based on other distribution version numbers
(which I don't think we should), we should keep our version numbers LOWER
than Red Hat et al, as we do not what the users you described using Debian
that will:
1) Try to get support that we cannot provide for the commercial software.
(at least not as well as the companies selling the commercial
software).
3) Get frustrated with Debian (and Linux).
4) Avoid using Debian (and Linux).
Trying to get them to use a distribution that is not well suited for them
will not help Debian, and in this example, Debian is not the best
distribution for them. However, getting them use the distribution
that is right for them will help the Linux community as a whole, which
in turn, will help Debian.
Mark W. Blunier
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