On 08/05/2019 18:41, Christopher Pinon wrote: > Thanks for your extended comment, but I'm not sure that I would conclude > from it that "Debian is in pretty bad shape these days". (Or, if so, > then that every distribution is in pretty bad shape these days.)
You've identified a contradiction in my spiel. I'll think about it and tighten up my argument. > Don't take this the wrong way, but: Adélie Linux? Really? Still at beta > with (I'm guessing) five users? It's my personal opinion. I think it's an excellent distribution and I am seeing it grow in popularity. > As for Void Linux, it's a rolling release, intended for those who like > to break and to recompile their system every weekend. I've never been a fan of rolling releasees and they break for me all the time too. But some people seem to know how to make them work reliably. > Debian stable isn't for everyone, and certainly not for those who want > to experiment with Btrfs. In this case, why would they include Btrfs in the default package repositories? > Sorry to hear about your networking issue with Debian stable, but you > didn't say what exactly the problem was. There's no need to apologise for my networking issue. I don't even blame Debian. Software is very, very difficult to get right. Sometimes I'm surprised that computers work at all. I didn't go into the details of the problem because they are irrelevant, boring, and it would take a very long time to accurately describe the issue. > In any case, we're already OT, > given that this is a NetBSD list. :-) Is this whole thread OT because it asks for web hosting recommendations instead of asking questions specifically about NetBSD? And I believe that my message was relevant to NetBSD in the sense that it's about the complexity of software generally. Some of you may think I'm drawing a long bow. I intend this to be my last message on the topic anyway (although I'm happy to continue to discuss off-list). Andrew -- OpenPGP key: EB28 0338 28B7 19DA DAB0 B193 D21D 996E 883B E5B9