Re: FWD: Re: comment on "User Review of Debian GNU/Linux"

2003-03-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In conclusion the person who wrote the review seemed like a smart > fellow, maybe a little too smart, and should perhaps apply some of that > intelligence towards considering how phenomenally popular debian has > become, and why, before taking too stro

FWD: Re: comment on "User Review of Debian GNU/Linux"

2003-03-05 Thread rich59123
I hope I'm not speaking out of place, I'm a long time user first time poster, recent subscriber. Id like to point out that there's a very good reason Linux and debian are so popular. For many people, there is no choice. Unix is and has been the industrial standard for a long long time. Debian as th

Re: comment on "User Review of Debian GNU/Linux"

2003-03-05 Thread Dale E Martin
> > The fact that no version of Debian has a complete edition of KDE 3.x > > doesn't make the argument that more people should use it any easier. > > Well, unstable does. Actually, right now several critical pieces of KDE are missing from unstable: kdenetwork kmail kdepim I've known at least one

Re: comment on "User Review of Debian GNU/Linux"

2003-03-05 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:40:08AM -0600, Adam DiCarlo wrote: > > While I can appreciate using limited resources to their fullest potential, > > my > > main issue with the no updates to Woody policy would have to do with > > OpenOffice. IMHO OpenOffice is as significant to Linux on the desktop a