On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:16:53PM +0200, adam wrote: | okay, I expected a bit more tolerance from debian users - I've just | unsubscribed. | sorry for having bothered you . . .
Apology accepted for bothering us. You don't need to unsubscribe because of it. The bother actually made me patch it on my end by filtering out those messages so I (hopefully :-)) won't see it next time. It would be much better for you to stay on the list, learn more about debian/linux, and through example convince your company of the merits of debian. As you may guess, I use debian on my personal machine and I also have it on a laptop on loan from my previous co-op job. The admin at my current co-op uses redhat on the servers. He has used slackware and debian before, and isn't wholly against other distros, he just wants to standardize on one. I used my debian boxes for my development and testing of some zope and postgres stuff. When it was ready for deployment I obtained a rh box to use for building packages. It was a PITA, and it was obvious too -- I had to spend lots of time compiling stuff and searching for current and compatible versions of packages. I managed to get postgres up and running and hadn't even tackled zope yet. He started upgrading the postgres on the server (was 7.0 and wasn't used much) to 7.2 and found a zope binary tarball and installed it. Then we had "fun" trying to get python and pygresql and zope-pygresqlda and the dependencies together on the rh servers. When he asked me where I got the zope db adapter, I simply smiled and said "the debian package repository". He made a comment today that he might like to try debian again, having seen how much I was able to do with it in with such ease (wrt package management). I found a bare PII system that I can work on outfitting with debian to put it to the test :-). The moral of the story is that flamewars aren't necessary, just the example that debian is able to meet requirements with ease and stability will suffice. -D -- "Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language not an app programming language." - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
