I'd like to appologise somewhat for my earlier reply. Speedreading I missed the fact that it was a quote from a book.
Glad you think well of Debian. It seems to me that people reviewing Debian frequently make the mistake of looking only superficially and giving a negative opinion because they fail to understand the concepts behind it. On Sunday 09 March 2003 19:51, J. Lambrecht wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 18:10, J. Lambrecht wrote: > > // I am not on the list so please, reply to all > > > > > > Sigh, and now i now why Debian's not for kids > > > > --- > > "From : Linux Administrator Handbook p.35 (Prentice Hall,2002) " > > > > Debian startup scripts > > > > If SuSE is the ultimate example of a well-designed, well-executed plan > > for the management of startup scripts, Debian is the exact opposite. The > > Debian scripts are fragile, undocumented, and unbelievably incosistent. > > Sadly, it appears that the lack of a standard way of setting up scripts > > has resulted in chaos in this case. Bad Debian! > > ... > > Good Luck > > --- > > > > Does anyone now if the SuSE startup scripts would work on Debian, or are > > there more well-planned startupscripts available for Debian. > > > > Greets, > > > > J. > > > > > > -- > > > > _____________________________________________ > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > The book sucks, would not dare to say so, since there is a forword by > Linus himself. (Don't tell me -they- put pressure on him to do so) > It's mostly a beginner's admin (me) studybook, i don't tend to use books > really often and this book is good at keeping pace with me somehow. > > My mail originated mostly out of disbelief, i've been using Debian/GNU > Linux on and off for the past couple of years and have successfully > switched to linux since the past year or so. In my experience Debian is > solid and well maintained, and then one reads a phrase like that. > > Debian wich is considered solid by most would have some gigantic > weakness with inconsistent (unchecked) scripts ? > > // incosistent is my spellingerror :-) > > Since i'm no good at anything close to scripting i thought it would be > informational to post this paragraph to this list ... I think of taking > a dive into scriptingworld, eek! > > > Thanks to all for your reply's. > > Joris > > ps: the SuSE question was kinda confussingly stupid, i admit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
