On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 04:09, frankieh wrote: > I think in some ways Debian has it all over Mandrake (and SUSE and REDHAT).. > As an example, I can load Debian Woody on a machine, (woody is a couple > of years old) > And then use sources like "backports.org" to load the newest packages I > need on that old linux. > > The result is an extremely stable platform that works exactly as you > need it to, without having to upgrade the machine at least every year, > or compiling stuff from scratch each time a new version comes out. > > Mandrake can't do that, because they make their money off selling > memberships and the distro itself, so they need to create regular releases. > > Its sad, because I love the mandrake layout, but I've slowly been > changing all the servers I am in charge of over to Debian from mandrake.
That's the first good reason I've heard to use Debian. LX
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