On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Yves Arrouye wrote:
Debian has some big advantages over any other distribution I know of
that make me want to contribute to Debian rather than another one. But
months for getting a membership, isn't that risking that new volunteers
will turn to Mandrake or Stampede for
On 17 Aug 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
But I think it's reasonable to change the behavior on new systems as
long as that change is well documented.
I think people will find it confusing if Debian is the only distro
that doesn't have bash as /bin/sh by default, and so I'd *rather* keep
it
On 17 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* static binaries are bigger (disk and RAM, which is a problem)
Could you explain the RAM part? I don't see how it affects RAM usage,
given my understanding of the way the linker works.
* Dynamic linking gives one point of failure, but
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
The smallest GLIBC static binary is 200k and that number seems to double
every release!
Let's say you would be adding 200K per system binary. Justin had a list of
26 binaries. That would be an extra 5MB of total disk space used up. The
entire
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