On Thursday 06 February 2003 05:06 pm, Pixel wrote:
> Stefan van der Eijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > PS: Some friends have always argued that the debian way is the only
> > sustainable way to go. If mdk is going to do it just like debian, why not
> > fold and move the idea's and effort into making debian a better distro
> > instead of duplicating the effort?
>
> one main difference with debian, is that mandrake (tries to) takes
> into account the users's needs (and not only the developers's needs)
>
> another difference is the timing of stabilisation: someone told me
> that debian is either not uptodate (the "stable" branch), or less
> stable than Mandrake ("testing")For not entirely logical reasons, I keep one Debian "testing" box around. It is acceptably stable for what it does (backup) but is is not as close to the edge as 9.0. For example: samnite:~# uname -a Linux samnite 2.4.17-bf2.4 #1 Son Feb 24 13:00:32 CET 2002 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux samnite:~# gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) I ran apt-get update and upgrade this morning. Jim Tarvid
