On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 13:32, John Schmidt wrote: > I certainly appreciate the multiple architecture support of Debian. I > have it installed on a powerpc, m68k, and x86 box. I initially > installed it on my m68k box, since Debian was the only distribution > that supported it. I made the switch to my other boxes because I liked > the consistency of one distribution and hated the dependency mess of > rpm. I have advocated Debian to others in my work place and will > continue to do so.
I've thought about responding to other posts in this thread, but can't think of any way to respond to irrational posts without adding fuel to the flames, but this one deserves a big "Me, too!". It was a huge selling point to be able to run the exact same software on both a dual PIII and a G4 - and to be able to tell my boss so; he was afraid we'd have to buy another high-end workstation for a new employee, when we could actually just recycle an existing, unused system, and use remote logins for the odd piece of proprietary software that doesn't work on other platforms. The portability and maintainability of Debian has contributed greatly to the recent decision to remove as many pieces of proprietary software as possible in favor of those built in to Debian. Debian is hard to install, and I don't care - I install one time per machine. Debian is easy to upgrade, and I like it - I upgrade and install new software on some machine or other every week. The developers all get a huge Thank You! from me. -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Technology Coordinator Center for Educational Outcomes at Dartmouth College -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
