On Tuesday 14 March 2000, at 12 h 38, the keyboard of Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Depends on the functions one needs. But i'd like to generalize a bit: > the included *apps* are far too old. Stuff like teTeX, Since the teTeX in slink works fine and the one is potato is broken (a bug in babel which prevents compilation of *every* document in French), I prefer the old stuff. > majority of Linux users are using it for their desktop needs (like i > mainly do) and for those running current versions definitely makes > sense. It all depends on the particular users perspective though > which might largely differ from a Debian *developer* mindset. Blah. When I'm working on my desktop, I want as much stability than on my servers. I do not prefer a crash in Emacs which will loose texts than one in Apache which will stop the Web server. > Debian. Pure Linux users are therefore probably better off with one > of those .rpm based distributions, which seem to pay pay more > attention to average user's needs. Yes, the users do not need stability, reliability, etc. They love RedHat 5.0 or 6.0.