Re: A little bad press about Debian

2000-03-23 Thread Onno
Ultimately, it's the similarity between FreeBSD and Linux that's confusing you, not really the differences. Good quote candidate... Regards, Onno

Re: A little bad press about Debian

2000-03-22 Thread Hecubus
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Patrick wrote: It has to be said that running one distro is easier to manage. At work we have Win NT Server, Red Hat, FreeBSD and a solitary mail server running Debian as a result of my evangelising. The diversity is a pain when for example we want to work on the

A little bad press about Debian

2000-03-21 Thread Bill Wohler
A disturbing excerpt from Linux vs. Linux, by Charles Babcock, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Week, http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/2320/tc/2321261.html And yet, such an optimistic outcome is not a sure thing. Minor examples of Linux forks already exist. When Tom Stoddard, database

Re: A little bad press about Debian

2000-03-21 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Wohler wrote: And yet, such an optimistic outcome is not a sure thing. Minor examples of Linux forks already exist. When Tom Stoddard, database administrator at BFGoodrich's Avionics Division, loaded backup software on company servers in Grand Rapids, Mich., he found an

Re: A little bad press about Debian

2000-03-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
Joey Hess wrote: Of course it's difficult to tell without any technical details, but my educated guess would be that the non-free binary-only software they tried to use was linked with -rpath, so it will only work if some library is in a specific place. Which is of course, its own fault, and

Re: A little bad press about Debian

2000-03-21 Thread Patrick
It has to be said that running one distro is easier to manage. At work we have Win NT Server, Red Hat, FreeBSD and a solitary mail server running Debian as a result of my evangelising. The diversity is a pain when for example we want to work on the FreeBSD box and no-one knows where any files

Re: A little bad press about Debian

2000-03-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 18:32:46 -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Of course it's difficult to tell without any technical details, but my educated guess would be that the non-free binary-only software they tried to use was linked with -rpath, I second that guess. I've seen this before, once with the CDE