On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:22:34PM +0800, C Francis Pineda wrote: > Probably we could do that but that maybe perceived by the public as > negative "why not red hat?"
As I stated before, I would prefer that we use something standard instead of a homebrewed custom distribution made just for the event. However I personally do not trust RedHat. Why not RedHat? Because its track record sucks, IMHO. Debian's, on the other hand, has been pretty superb without even having to be a "secure distribution". It's a standard general-purpose GNU/Linux distribution with particular emphasis on applications that benefit from a slower release cycle following the tried-and-tested approach. As a volunteer to the PenguiGnus-2003 team, I will abide by whatever restrictions will be set both by the event coordinators and the majority of the team. However I have advocated and will continue to advocate something I use and recommend others use in the real world. I believe that beyond just keeping SittingPenguin secure during ManilaCon 2003, this is an opportunity to see if we can recommend what we use. There are many other reasons why I prefer Debian to RedHat. The fact that it is completely volunteer-driven in contrast to RedHat being driven by a for-profit corporation is one important bit, FWIW. Besides, why not Debian? It's also GNU/Linux. It's standard. It's publicly available. What's more, Debian comes with stricter guidelines when it comes to free software, for which reason applications like Pine are not included by default in the Debian tree. These may not be important from the security point of view, but as what will be our flag in ManilaCon 2003, I believe Debian is a very symbolic and viable choice. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. : software we refer to GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE : freedom, not price. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
