On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:48, bob wrote: > hazzmat wrote: > > > Not that anyone should care what I think, but the longer I'm in this > > game, the more I respect the ability and accomplishments of the Debian > > Project. Most proprietary Linux distros have done something in last 4 > > or 5 years to unsettle their previously loyal users. Some have turned > > against the Linux community like Caldera, a few have vanished, and > > most have flipflopped on their business models. SUSE is strong but it > > has also contained important proprietary pieces like YAST. I can't > > imagine that trend will change now that they are owned by Novell. > > I get the feeling that the more of us there are using and supporting > > the Debian effort the safer we'll all be. I'm writing this on a > > mandrake box, but mandrake is a bleeding edge distro, mainly suited to > > the desktop, and it has come close to going OOB, and it may do so again. > > I have to agree on the quality of Debian and especialy the stable > version for server usage. After using apt-get I could never go back to > the frustration of an rpm based distro again. And with the social > contract they have you can be confident you won't have anything like > redhats latest move pulled on you. I've moved all my boxes over to it > except for one remaining 7.3 running LTSP and the will go over too by > Dec,31st. On the point of cutting edge, I've been running a mix of > Debian testing/unstable on my desktop for some time now and have had no > major trouble while having all the latest versions of everything. It > would be great if all the open source projects would start treating > Debian as the primary distro and leave redhat and such behind as the > redheaded stepchildren. It's bad enough to hear the same chant from all > the hardware vendors, "we only support redhat". >
I am the main Linux administrator where I work. I've been using Linux for about 5 years. The rest of the department here has just started working with it the last year. I try like crazy to convince them that Debian is the best distribution to use because its stable, and its a community project. It doesn't have to deal with making money. Which can be a good thing sometimes. -- Jeff Self Dept. of Information Technology City of Newport News (757)926-3741 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
