Re: BSD vs Debian [Was: Re: Real men don't attack straw men]

2007-12-17 Thread Lars Noodén
bofh wrote: > The reasons I've are: > > Need to support commercial packages > Linux is more mainstream > Debian has a maintenance program in place (ie, security patches are > back ported to supported platforms) > Longetivity of a particular level of release ... I've used Debian a bit since 1997.

Re: BSD vs Debian [Was: Re: Real men don't attack straw men]

2007-12-16 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 01:10:54PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Where I work right now, we have bsd and debian on servers. > > All user computers run debian or mandrake right now (and > > we're going to move those to debian). We dont let them choose. > > It is mandatory. We use bsd and some

Re: BSD vs Debian [Was: Re: Real men don't attack straw men]

2007-12-16 Thread bofh
The reasons I've are: Need to support commercial packages Linux is more mainstream Debian has a maintenance program in place (ie, security patches are back ported to supported platforms) Longetivity of a particular level of release And... Hell of a lot of "opensource" programmers think cross-plat

Re: BSD vs Debian [Was: Re: Real men don't attack straw men]

2007-12-16 Thread marina
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 03:36:21AM +, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: Where I work right now, we have bsd and debian on servers. All user computers run debian or mandrake right now (and we're going to move those to debian). We dont let them choose. It

BSD vs Debian [Was: Re: Real men don't attack straw men]

2007-12-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 03:36:21AM +, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: > Where I work right now, we have bsd and debian on servers. > All user computers run debian or mandrake right now (and > we're going to move those to debian). We dont let them choose. > It is mandatory. We use bsd and some debian