Re: freedom of debian

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jacob Anawalt wrote: With debian, the files come to you whereas the old rpm system required you to find packages and fix things yourself. And isn't it just better this way? Thanks goes to all the hard working package mantainers! :) One of the beauties of open source: http://apt4rpm.sourcefor

Re: freedom of debian

2003-10-11 Thread Jacob Anawalt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Jason Housewright wrote: [snip] Using Debian, is it fair to say that one has more freedom regarding the software installed...specifically, I mean that my experience with GNU/Linux thus far has been that if you want to install an upgraded version of some

Re: freedom of debian

2003-10-04 Thread kmark
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Jason Housewright wrote: > Greetings again and thanks for the replies dealing > with lilo and grub (sounds like a bad movie doesn't > it?). I hope that I'm not being too general with this > next question... > > Using Debian, is it fair to say that one has more > freedom regar

freedom of debian

2003-10-04 Thread Jason Housewright
Greetings again and thanks for the replies dealing with lilo and grub (sounds like a bad movie doesn't it?). I hope that I'm not being too general with this next question... Using Debian, is it fair to say that one has more freedom regarding the software installed...specifically, I mean that my ex