On 28/08/07, Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Personally, I'd say it's more a publicity issue than a technical one --
> first in getting Debian a reputation for being easy to install and use
> (for kernel hackers who're indifferent to distros, anyway), and in its
> aims ("Linus uses Debian for five minutes!"). Which is fine and good,
> but -release isn't going to be a lot of help in making it happen.
>I'd have to agree here. Although I personally find debian easier to install and maintain than any other distro I've tried now or in the past, I'm also surprised to learn that Linus feels otherwise. However having "never run Debian" himself, I can't help but imagine that this is due to some distant stigma associated with the distro - rather than based on its own merit. The fact that he's clumped debian together with the "compile everything by hand" distros - is merely showing his ignorance in this regard. Otherwise you could be forgiven for failing to understand how anyone could prefer a rpm based distro as opposed to a deb based one. Having said that, perhaps this release goal should be "increasing awareness of debian in the linux desktop market?" - or something along those lines (not that trivial to quantify though) -- Joel Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 0xA992856D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
