Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:22:29AM +0200, Lupe Christoph wrote: > > So in essence the announcement says "screw you, commercial > > customers". > > > > Please don't do that. It makes promoting Debian awkward. > > are you aware that we are talking about *oldstable* here? it was > released july 2002, i think if it is supported until may 2006(one > year after it got replaced with a new stable version) that's quite a > long timeframe and a very good reason for promoting debian!
Also, you are IMHO ignoring, that Debian is one of the _very_ few distros, that provides _seamless_ upgrades between even major releases. The only other distro, which comes close to the "debian-way of upgrading" is afaik Gentoo (which is no alternative for productive server-systems for obvious reasons). On my behalf, i used to install a base-system with a woody-netinstall-image to setup a sarge-system for customers, who wanted a more up2date system - this never made any problems worth speaking of. And THIS is a very strong pro Debian argument - you don't need to re-setup your server every so-often (like you would have to do with, say, SuSE), but you can, if you wish, even slowly migrate your server, service by service to more recent versions/releases and deal with probable changes in configuration or handling one by one and don't have to do the whole lot at once. Regards, Sven -- http://www.tuxhilfe.de/ - Linux Hilfe und Support Forum http://www.best-of-us.de/ - Bekanntschaften und Freunde finden/treffen sven at tuxhilfe dot de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
