Someone wrote: > perhaps Debian is no longer useful to most of us.
Two years ago I set up a small network of Debian machines for graduate students and faculty members in my department. There are six machines in the network and a lot of people depend on them. This effort cost my university exactly nothing. Since then, these machines have *never* failed us. There was a point a couple of months ago when I had a desperate email message from a group of grad students saying that every single non-Debian machine in the lab (Mac, Windows) was broken, and unusable to one degree or another. But the Debian machines have never let us down. They have never crashed, and they require virtually no maintenance. One of them runs woody; the rest run potato. I'll probably upgrade all of them to woody over the summer. However, this will be mostly for my own satisfaction and amusement, since for their users it just doesn't matter which version they run. The machines just do what needs to be done, day after day, even though, as physical objects, they come from the bottom of the heap---cheap antiques, most of them. The graduate students and faculty members who use these machines day in day out couldn't give a flying fuck, for the most part, whether they run `stable', `testing', or `unstable'. They don't know, and they have no reason to care, and they will never post to this list. They have no reason to, because things just work. >From this perspective, the idea that Debian might no longer be useful seems just bonkers. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
