[TriLUG] Debian (was: Installfest SW)

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 20:01, John Beimler wrote:
> I don't mean to start a distro war, but Debian deserves a look.  Potato
> is old and crusty, and Woody (soon to be Debian 3) still is carrying
> over some of the issues, but for people who are looking for more than
> "free beer" software, and an extremely strong community, Debian is worth
> some time.

While I am well known as a Red Hat user, I actually Like a lot of what
debian does. I know that if I install debian on 99% of the hardware I
own, it will work, and be rock solid. 

And while I cannot say that about Red Hat or Mandrake, I can say that
there are cases where Debian won't fit, either. My bleeding edge laptop
has kernel issues with *ALL* distros because of it's ACPI-only BIOS (or
lack of BIOS, as the case may be), requiring numerous tweaks to any
distro.  I use Red Hat with it because Red hat is a better fit right
now.

I put debian on my EV4 alpha systems when I want something newer than
RHL 6.2 (since RH dropped EV4 in 7.x).

In any case, a distro is like a text editor - some people like vi,
others emacs, and others still like pico (and some poor deluded souls
long for a port of Windows Notepad, but that's just wrong). The ability
to choose is what sets Linux apart from that other OS, because if I
don't like what I see in one, I can always roll my own and make that
perfect fit for me.

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