On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Laurel Fan wrote:
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> 2) Debian is a group of volunteers, not a company, so it will always be
> serious about free software, and they spend their time working on the
> distro instead of marketing. Each maintainer is also personally
> responsible for his/her packages.
Did you hear that VA Linux, O'Reilly, and SGI are preparing to package
Debian in the future to sell in Retail stores? I haven't been to clear
about how the volunteers/maintainers feel about this move but it looks
pretty good for $19.95, you get Debian and the book Installing Debian/Gnu
Linux published by O'Reilly and tech support provided by VA.
I read this somewhere... I think it's on Slashdot.
> 3) Version upgrades are absolutely painless. To upgrade from 2.0 to
> 2.1, all I had to do was "apt-get dist-upgrade" and then paste in a few
> commands from the upgrade release notes.
The one thing that I found very good with Debian. The only problem is
that I like to know where I'm installing stuff. =)
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> 5) It sticks to the Unix philosophy more than some other distros. It
> doesn't rely on flaky graphical configuration tools, the output of a
> program can be the input of a program, etc.
What about Slackware? ;) I can't wait until version 7.0 comes out of
Slack.
> 7) Debian also distributes Hurd :)
I never met anyone outside of the business environment who uses HURD. =)
> Debian may not be for you if:
>
> 1) You don't want to use the command line.
You can install a X server and window manager just as easily. =)
> 2) You want to use a lot of software that is considered non-free by Debian.
It may not be available on the Debian distribution disks but it doesn't
stop you from installing the software. =)
> 3) You don't want to have to learn about linux to use it.
Heh. =) I like this one.
> 4) You don't want a packaging system.
Of course, you don't have to use it. =)
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