On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:56:52AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:19:03AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > Yo! > > > > http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5673962628.html > > > > Merely somebody who likes Fedora and (Open)SuSE better than Debian, or > > somebody who has a realistic view of the world? While I'm personally happy > > to use etch, I might be a bit biased... > > > > (There are many news items more or less just quoting the release > > announcement, there are some that are very positive, but I think where we > > learn is how people *don't* like the release, that's why I'm posting this > > here. Note that this is not an attack against the kernel or X people, I > > know they did a huge job.) > > Wow. The last thing I expected to see when I wrote that comment was that my > name would show up in an article somewhere. What I was actually going for > was to get our actual users excited about what we're doing, not provide > troll-fodder. I'm no fan of Vaughn-Nichols, and generally consider him a > total hack. The most notable evidence for this is that our X install stuff > is almomst identical to Ubuntu's and yet he falls all over himself to talk > about how great Ubuntu is, but then denigrates us for the exact same X > setup. Way to do your research. >
(sorry, I don't know wtf happened with vim, this line got cut) I'm not sure how we can make people think of Debian as more "Debian" and less > "The Father Of Ubuntu", but I do know that we won't be able to avoid these > types of articles if we can't figure it out and make it happen. > > Anyway, I think we've done a lot of great work for etch, and we can do more > for lenny. I know I've got my plans for the X stuff, and from the TeX and > Postgres announcements on -devel-announce, it's clear that others also have > big plans. None of the stuff I've got in mind will resolve this problem, > but I'm open to suggestions. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]