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On 31-Jul-97 Alex Yukhimets wrote: >> I've been noticing quite in interesting trend, lately. >> >> Seems most newbies to Linux, way back when, would use >> Slackware. 'cause that was the only thing available. >> >> Nowadays, since you can buy Red Hat at Fry's, and Egghead, and every >> other electronics store in the US, it seems there are throbbing hordes >> of newbies running it. (At least that's what I've determined in >> comp.os.linux.misc :) >> >> But! On the linux-kernel developers' list, most people are talking >> about Debian. >> >> Perhaps Debian's becoming the developers' OS of choice, while Red Hat >> is replacing Slackware as the introduction to Linux. >> >> Thoughts? > >I'd love the intention of Debian to support its image as >"developer's OS of choice". > But one thing to consider is RedHat makes it a habit to give free CDs to many of the developers. The author of fetchmail uses RedHat for just this reason. I also think Linus uses RedHat. It would be really cool if Debian had some way of doing this. Possibly get one of the CD vendors to be nice enough - ------------------------- E-Mail: Travis Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.methow.com/~tcole -- Get my Public Key here Date: 30-Jul-97 Time: 21:42:46 640Kb should be enough for anybody Bill Gates - ------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM+AYdWgYC2+RaorhAQEpEAP/dVX0SjMZYWW24cqantwuxrGbyglm60uV mqIrWl6hwAJEEtJeA1QqOC/jzuAXlHq53sqhWN3uVZhiy0tMkspU1BwdMQJB+0K0 TNp/bC3QjTZ0BFLnklNqw+rJ1+9D0YKE2ugiMeNQz1qEVhjHkoNxGRfeKmytwzcF iQXBuzZ/0x8= =qCML -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .