aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Juha Jäykkä
(off topic) Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as they would like to do. I need strong evidence in favour of Debian if I am to succeed in enforcing it.

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Martin Hermanowski
Should this be on the list or per mail only? On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0300, Juha Jäykkä wrote: (off topic) Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors to turn from RH to Debian instead of

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Tim Haynes
Martin Hermanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should this be on the list or per mail only? I don't know why it's on debian-secure, that's for sure. On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0300, Juha Jäykkä wrote: (off topic) Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0300, Juha Jäykkä wrote: (off topic) enforcing it. I do not know SuSE myself, so I cannot fight them (they do not know Debian, but they are the ones who decide - they do not Who's administering the boxen, you or them? If the answer is you, or other people

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Geoff Beaumont
At 04:44 2001-07-16 -0400, you wrote: ,[ On Mon, Jul 16, at 11:03AM, Juha J?ykk? wrote: ]-- | Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of | Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors | to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Florian Kessler
Am 16.07.2001 10:03 Uhr schrieb Juha Jäykkä unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (off topic) Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as they would like to do. I need

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Juha Jäykkä wrote: (off topic) Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as they would like to do. I need strong

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:52:20PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: this isn't an answer, but install Debian, then change /etc/issue as well as /etc/motd to suggest SuSE, and trust me, none of your superiors are going to get it :) like they would ever login to the machine anyway. -- Ethan

RE: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Jens Fendler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi juha.. Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors as someone else already said, yast is a major problem with suse.. the distribution itself is

aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Juha Jäykkä
(off topic) Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as they would like to do. I need strong evidence in favour of Debian if I am to succeed in enforcing it. I

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Martin Hermanowski
Should this be on the list or per mail only? On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0300, Juha Jäykkä wrote: (off topic) Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors to turn from RH to Debian instead of

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Tim Haynes
Martin Hermanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should this be on the list or per mail only? I don't know why it's on debian-secure, that's for sure. On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0300, Juha Jäykkä wrote: (off topic) Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0300, Juha Jäykkä wrote: (off topic) enforcing it. I do not know SuSE myself, so I cannot fight them (they do not know Debian, but they are the ones who decide - they do not Who's administering the boxen, you or them? If the answer is you, or other people

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Gabriel Rocha
,[ On Mon, Jul 16, at 11:03AM, Juha J?ykk? wrote: ]-- | Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of | Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors | to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as they would like to do. I | need strong

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Geoff Beaumont
At 04:44 2001-07-16 -0400, you wrote: ,[ On Mon, Jul 16, at 11:03AM, Juha J?ykk? wrote: ]-- | Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of | Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors | to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Florian Kessler
Am 16.07.2001 10:03 Uhr schrieb Juha Jäykkä unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (off topic) Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as they would like to do. I need

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Juha Jäykkä wrote: (off topic) Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as they would like to do. I need strong

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Juha J?ykk? (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:03:41AM +0300): Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as they would like to do. I need strong evidence

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:52:20PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: this isn't an answer, but install Debian, then change /etc/issue as well as /etc/motd to suggest SuSE, and trust me, none of your superiors are going to get it :) like they would ever login to the machine anyway. -- Ethan

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Ethan Benson (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 04:14:51AM -0800): this isn't an answer, but install Debian, then change /etc/issue as well as /etc/motd to suggest SuSE, and trust me, none of your superiors are going to get it :) like they would ever login to the machine anyway. word up.

Re: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0300, Juha Jäykkä wrote: Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors to turn from RH to Debian instead of SuSE as they would like to do. I need strong evidence in

RE: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE

2001-07-16 Thread Jens Fendler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi juha.. Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors as someone else already said, yast is a major problem with suse.. the distribution itself is