On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 07:47:11PM +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> > There, now no one has any excuses for not switching to debian/woody.
>
> :)
>
> Apart from the fact that a fair proportion of the people on this list
> probably use whatever they use because they're used to it, it works, and
> they've got lots of stuff they already use regularly and don't want to
> change.
Absolutely. My Dad uses an Acorn Risc PC: he knows how to use it, it
works, it does all he needs it to do. But as we all know, there's more
than one way to do it and so knowing many different systems has got to
be a plus.
> I have to admit I'm surprised by the growing distribution schism being
> shown up on this list... we're all supposed to evangelise about Linux, not
> try to convert each other to Another Way!
I guess those that use and love Debian feel somehow more evangelical: being
a NPO, completely volunteer based etc and commited to getting things right
rather than releasing on a specific date. I think we kind of dispise Red
Hat for creating the RPM format which has been adopted by the LSB which
I think a lot of people believe is a bad decision: we love the
sophistication of debs and apt-get.
Plus Debian has nothing like the advertising might of Red Hat and so the
users take it upon themselves to act as agents for the organisation! :)
> PoPToP/pppd/MPPE/RADIUS. How tricky does it get?
Exchange Server 2002.
;-)
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