-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 18:56:27 +0530 Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know about debian and its release cycles. However any distro that has > this huge gap in versions between "stable" and "bleeding edge" has a > problem or two in terms of usablity. > So, the best known and highly used distribution, RedHat, will also suffer the same problem as per your conclusions. I think the following chart will be better to clarify: Debian RedHat Version Stable/woody RHEL Stable testing/sarge Fedora Legacy testing unstable/sid Fedora unstable Caution! RedHat Folks, going on with srs's above statement, maybe in somedays your distribution will have a sign of question mark in terms of usability. > That, and Debian seems to have a few irritating peculiarities of its own > - a bad habit of running daemons from inetd, another bad habit (?) of > splitting perfectly good single file configs into multiple files so that > debconf or whatever can control it, and then there's the config file > names that tend to be different from what the config file name used by > the actual package is - for example, exim.conf instead of "configure", > etc. These make it different from every other linux that I've used. > I don't think daemons to be run from inetd to be a habit, rather that's an option that's provided. It's upto you wether you want to run it from inetd or standalone. Now coming to the split of config files. Just because you like a single file handling configuration system doesn't mean that Debian is stupid. Splitting of config files is for modularity. And debconf is an excellent piece of output from the Debian project. Instead of diving into hundred lines of configuration options, it provides us a simple `dpkg-reconfigure packagename` interface for atleast a barebone configuration. I think it's an add-on excellent feature, not a drawback or a "bad habit". > The most irritating thing about debian is nothing related to the distro > at all - it is the huge number of zealots who are far more closed > mindedly fanatic about debian / gnu ideology etc than the people who are > actually behind either debian or the GPL. > > srs come on! In the whole mail you've tried making out deficiencies out of the distribution and at the end you try summing it up with us. There's nothing close minded. We back up Debian / GNU just as you might do for your favourite distro. And yes, Debian is a successfull and ideal example of the GNU philosophy. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT (www.researchut.com) Happy GNU/Linux user since 1998 GPG Key ID: 0x04F130BC - ------ FORTUNE ! There's nothing very mysterious about you, except that nobody really knows your origin, purpose, or destination. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAbGSV4Rhi6gTxMLwRAmyZAJ9zxLWbI4F0Ps3/icRMqdUNvj05sACZASrH g2cc2ul0W56p6YZV8CZxu9o= =G1lu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
