Re: Linux article in Sunworl

1998-01-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
One other thing I like about Debian, a non-technical thing, is that development is open. Sure, Redhat is all free, but there's still a vendor. With Debian, you can be part of the vendor. On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 10:02:54PM +, Timothy Hospedales wrote: > One thing mentioned in the article

Re: Linux article in Sunworl

1998-01-05 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Incase any of ya'll care, in my inexperienced opinion. Debian is definitely the best distribution. :). I tried Slackware, which as mentioned, was very difficult to maintain and upgrade, eventually I gave up. I tried RedHat which was easier, but wasn't quite as configurable. Then I tried Deb

Re: Linux article in Sunworl

1998-01-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 04:48:54PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Nice, although the "Linux is not Solaris" theme came through a bit strong. > > Also, I don't remember there being a Pentium _II_ bug, as the article > > mentioned. Caldera, Redhat and (ugh

Re: Linux article in Sunworl

1998-01-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 02:40:12PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > A pretty nice article in Sunworld: > http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1998/swol-01-linux.html Nice, although the "Linux is not Solaris" theme came through a bit strong. Also, I don't remember there being a Pentium _II_ bug,