Sorry for that personal message, I misclicked. It wasn't aimed at you specifically.
Anyhow, to get back on topic. I have myself tried and used a lot of distributions and I have used (and plan to use more of) FreeBSD. I went through RPM hell of various distributions, experienced compiling from source and living on the bleeding edge with Gentoo. I even used Debian 3.0 back in the days it was just released, though my general *NIX knowledge was too low at that time to know how to deal with various errors that arose, again probably because my lack of knowledge. When Debian Etch was released, I wanted to give Debian a shot again in some server scenarios, because of it's stability, security and ease of upgrading. I now deeply respect the concept of "stable", having been through security-through-bleeding-edge concept of Gentoo, for example. Long End of Life of stable Debian seems priceless. Yet, on the other hand, Backports filled the gap caused by some oldish packages and in general there are a lot of packages for people to use. I now perceive myself back in those days as a person who wanted to try a lot of things for no specific reason. I wanted faster apps (ricer, eh), more apps, more eye candy... Now, when I administer several *NIX servers on a daily basis, I want stable stuff, in all meanings of the word. Stable filesystem, stable kernel, stable services, to name a few. So to wrap this long rant up, less people use Debian? Who cares! People who use it *know* why they use it. Why try to "sell" a distro to people who are still impressed by CFLAGS and a ton of eye-candy? That extra 1% of performance, but occasional crashes? Who tweak their systems all day long, but are doing essentially nothing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
