Okay, so I'm jumping into the middle here, but I just came from 18 months with Gentoo, and I for one, am VERY happy with the support that Woody gets, even though it's years old, and that I can be confident that each stable distro will have excellent bug-fixing for many moons. The main problem I had with Gentoo was that it was SO fast that it was impossible to build two identical system, even IF you were building from their "packages".
Believe me. Apt ROCKS in comparison. It would take me DAYS to install on Gentoo and an install would be almost as big as with RedHat, which is what I was trying to get away from in the first place. With Debian, I can make nice neat desktop boxes with Sid or Sarge and routers/servers with Woody. The servers are patched to the hilt for security and stability, and *who freakin cares* if my internal mirror servers aren't running KDE 3.2 - my laptop is - oh and WITH nivida-proprietary, WITH VMWare Workstation, WITH QT Commercial edition, WITH the 2.6 Kernel. I wrote off Debian for SO long because I didn't take the time to check out the different distros. It's a crying shame. There are some tweaks that I would like to make, and, now that I'm spend 1.5 hours on an install instead of 1.5 weeks, maybe I'll have time to join the /dev group. First, I'll make sure I have my feet thoroughly wet, though. :) --JATF -----Original Message----- From: Katipo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 6:43 PM To: Monique Y. Mudama Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sarge? Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >On 2004-04-30, Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen penned: > > >><snip> >> Im out of here. To qoute the dolphins: Good luck >>and thanks for all the fish... >> >> >> > ><snip> > I do think it's important for these discussions to >take place. There are movements afoot to ensure that this debate can >occur without delaying sarge's release, and I think this is a reasonable >approach. > > > Don't worry. Let him swim in the sewerage again, for a while. He'll be back. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
