On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 12:36 PM, Andrew Perrin wrote:
Okay, I can accept that - particularly the install ease. Although pesonally I'd prefer improving Debian's install over going the all-new route, but that's just me.
Well it remains to be seen what the recent port of Anaconda to Debian will do. I can only see that as a positive change.
What I'm talking about doing isn't all new, though; it's taking an existing distro, sanitizing it of trademarks, and mildly changing it to meet with the project's goals.
It just seemed to me that Debian's two big advantages (the guaranteed "all-free"ness
Check out the cAos social contract.
and the robustness of apt-get)
Like I said, on the RPM side we have yum which works just as well (and often with less typing).
Like the KDE vs Gnome or Emacs vs Vi debate, it more or less boils down to a matter of personal preference. In my own case, it is that plus not wanting to re-engineer my automation around a completely different flavored distro.
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