On Monday 31 Jan 2005 8:24 pm, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Remember, Debian is a voluntary effort. What else besides the > commercialization part makes you feel Debian sucks ??
That has nothing to do with this debate. There are tons of distros out there which are voluntary and are far more bleeding edge than debian. Accept it, debian has its place and so does RedHat. When it comes to installing linux on one of the old(ancient is better) PA-RISC box, I am glad that debian exists. However same time, when I am installing debian workstation, I am irritated that I am stuck with KDE2.2 despite of using testing/unstable (whichever is bleeding edge) because KDE 3.x does not compile on (same God Damn) PA-RISC because of GCC problems. Should I crib? I rather not. I didn't/couldn't contribute anything either to debian or gcc to help the problem resolve. I would rather switch away from debian. I think the good part of debian is that it insists on policy conformance. The bad part is it is portable. If they split their product portfolio across architectures, I would really love it. Same applies to lot many other distros. as well. I would really like to see slick distros which are all usable and make *some* decisions for users. I don't want bloody GNOME!!! FreeBSD is only one where I got base+X+KDE and NOTHING else.. Everyone else polluted my machine to a level which I didn't wanted to clean. I rather gave them space..(Oh well.. Not to mention GNOME is a noodle ball which you cannot unbundle by hand even if it is cold.. Not slackware's fault either..) Shridhar ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
